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On Microsoft s Repentance
T here has been a lot of excite-
ment about the new Microsoft Office
98, but I don’t know how many people are
aware of the “small print” (“Microsoft
Repents,” March 1998). The system
requirements for Office 98 are a 120MHz
or better PowerPC CPU. A 120MHz
PowerPC chip for a word processor? I
think diat is ridiculous.
The life cycle of a computer in a
design firm is such that the newer
machines are for graphics use and the
older ones are left for administrative
work. Now it seems that the better
machines will be needed for a word pro-
cessor and the slower ones will be left
for Adobe Photoshop.
Cesar B u e n r o s t r o - .M o r e n o
Mexico City, Mexico
I ENJOYED YOUR ARTICLE ON OFFICE
98, but I must point out a mistake
about Outlook Express. Author David
Pogue stated that Outlook Express does
not let users create folders. This is not
true; I currently have five folders and
multiple subfolders.
Joel Donaldson
Killeen, Texas
Sure enough, Microsoft added user foldei's in
the release version. And while V?n making
corrections: an editing slipup timied ^most
HTML e~7fiail is junk mair into "'most e-mail
is junk jnail.'' Pm really not a sociopath!
— David Pogue
Quark UnImpress 4.0
B ased on your review of quark-
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rent users,” I confidently plunked down
leners
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March 1998). I’ve been a happy XPress
camper for nearly ten years and was look-
ing foi^'ard to improvements to an
already terrific product.
While I understand that your re\iew-
ers can’t spend months working with a new
version of a program, 1 think it would be
wise to withhold your mouse ratings until
some of us down here in the trenches have
sent you on-the-job feedback. QuarkXPress
4.0 is riddled with bugs. Speed problems.
Printing problems. Display problems. Font
problems. The Quark Tech Forum is piled
high with complaints from users who
depend on XPress for their livelihood. And
their complaints share a common theme:
Why was this product released with so
many glitches?
If your reviewer had put XPress 4.0
through even a few hours of normal use
(printing separations, importing EPS
files, running it on different systems) he
would no doubt have discovered XPress
4.0’s weaknesses. And tlien he would have
done the responsible thing: written a
review that alerted readers to the poten-
tial hazards of upgrading to what is, in
reality, a beta version of QuarkXPress.
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A fter installing QuarkXPress
4.0 with some diffic*ulty, 1 discovered
that my XTensions didn’t work — includ-
ing those that came as part of the 3.32
package. My subsequent conversation
with tech support was almost laughable —
I was told to get in touch with the
XTensions developers to obtain updates.
There’s no argument that Quark-
XPress 3.3 is the de facto standard for
desktop publishing. Version 4.0 is quite
another matter; it can hardly be considered
stable or reliable enough to use for pro-
duction. My requirements for a \iable piece
of software are that it install easily and per-
form as it has been advertised to; XPress 4.0
sadly fails to meet those requirements.
Chuck McKinney
via Macworld Online
From various postings we've seen, it's clear
that service bureaus and QuarkXPress 4.0
end uset's are having issues such as those you
describe. We recommend that you go to
www.qiiark.com to download the 4.02rl
updater, which should solve some problems.
As for XTensions, each new QuarkXPress
revision breaks XTensions for previous ver-
sions — but of the 50-odd pre-4.0 XTensions I
tested on the Mac, the vast majority worked
fine. — Galen Gniman
Higher-Ed Mac Flak
A s A LONGTIME YALE FACULTY
member, I found David Pogue’s
assessment of the Apple situation at Yale
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• The price of KemingtotTs Orbit
Trackball is $70, not $39 (''The Mac's
Brightest Stars, ” March / 998).
• In "The Modern Showdown" (April
1998), the photo on page 89 was
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the photo on page 90 was taken by
Suzanne Roady.
both accurate and prescient (The Desk-
top Critic, March 1998). I had a long dis-
cussion with Mr. Updegrove (director
of information technology services
[ITS]) last summer about his don’t-buy-
a-Mac letter to incoming freshmen. He
stated his main motivation for writing
it was fear that incoming students would
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work from a Mac.
My initial reaction to ITS’s pro-
nouncement was horror. Then I realized
we have not gotten much support from
ITS anyway, so its withdrawal of support
means little to my mostly Mac lab. We
have even gotten opposition at times,
and were forced to set up our own net-
work and maintain our own Web site.
.Anyone facing a similar scenario should
keep in mind that you’re lucky to have a
Mac, as they are easier to set up and
maintain yourself — and Mac trouble-
shooting courses can teach you to man-
age on your own.
John Fi.ory, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics, Vale University
New Haven, Connecticut
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D avid poguk’s statf.mf.nt that
Brown University is phasing out
Macintoshes is not correct. The infor-
mation Brown provided to students
entering in fall 1997 neither recom-
mended PCs nor discouraged Macs. The
university continues to support both
Macs and PCs.
We have seen a shift toward PC
ownership among incoming students.
Each year we distribute packets of infor-
mation to incoming students who want
to connect their computers to the cam-
pus network. In September 1997,
approximately 75 percent of the packets
distributed were for computers running
the Windows OS and 25 percent were
for those running the Mac OS — leading
us to estimate that 75 percent of first-
year students who own computers have
PC]s and 25 percent have Macintoshes.
Market forces — not university dic-
tates — will determine Apple’s presence
on campuses.
M A R Y M C C I. U R K
Director of Academic & User Services,
Computer Information Services, Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
OS Update Uncertainty
I N YOUR ARTICLF ON MAC OS 8.1
and HFS+ (“Mac OS Update Frees
Your Hard Drive,” News, March 1998),
you state that people with Mac clones
who want to upgrade their hard drives to
HFS+ need two external hard drives
(one to back up data and one to use as a
start-up disk when installing OS 8.1)
unless they purchase AJsoft’s PlusMaker.
Why can’t we simply use a single high-
capacity hard drive to install 8.1 and
back up data, and also use that disk as a
start-up disk from which to convert the
original hard disk? Alternatively, why
not install OS 8.1 on a Zip cartridge and
boot from that?
T o M N V O E N* T
Camlrridge, Massachusetts
Either scenario would work, although Zip
cartridges have the Ihnitation of relatively
small capacity. But before you try either
method, don 't forget to back up your old
System Folder in case something goes
wrong. — Henry Bortman
I N YOUR AR'I’ICLF ABOUT UPDAT-
ing to Mac OS 8.1, you left out an
important warning to your readers.
Before updating, they must check with
the developers of utilities they use. For
example, neither Symantec’s Norton
Utilities nor Alsoft’s DiskExpress Pro
are HFS+-compatible. Symantec and
Alsoft may take months to update their
programs, and both say not to use their
programs on a drive formatted with
Hh'S+. Evidently, these developers had
to wait until Apple released a final ver-
sion of HFS+ before updating these
applications. There may be other
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WALL STREET'S CONSUMER-LEVEL LUST COULD DRIVE THE MAC INTO NEW MARKETS
E uphoria is not a word
often associated with
Apple these days. A
constant stream of petty
dramas combined with
uncertainty about the
Mac’s future have con-
spired to seriously erode
confidence in Apple and
its products. To be a Mac user is usually
to be dismissed as a fanatic, as if with a
single word from our charismatic cult
leader in Cupertino it’ll be Jonestown
cocktails all around.
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Apple stock is undervalued; Apple’s new
distribution strategies are enhancing mar-
gins; the company seems to be on the road
to sustained profitability; the new G3
Power Macs are selling well.
But ply that same analyst with a few
drinks, and you’ll likely hear a different
explanation: consumer Macs.
An All-Consuming Obsession
Despite every^ effort by what is arguably
the greatest convergence of technologi-
cal and marketing expertise in human his-
tory — the computer industry — there are
still a lot of people in the world who can
afford computers and don’t have them.
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There’s only one problem with this
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to use for technophobes to buy into the
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join the PowerPC generation.
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tag. It’s to create a product that delivers the
advantages of a computer without actually
resembling one. And right on schedule, here’s
another juicy rumor for Wall Street: Apple
is working on a “set-top media player,”
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Imagine a box that is a DVD player,
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Of course, Apple would be insane to try
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heart of a Mac. And the Mac
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I just hope that amid all this consumer
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audience: the people who create the con-
tent that would appear on that little box.
They’re the ones who will give Apple the
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by Stephen Beale
ith Apple interim
CEO Steve Jobs
set to address
attendees at the
Seybold New York
electronic publishing confer-
ence in March, many Apple-
watchers expected big news,
such as the announcement of
a permanent CEO. His
keynote turned out to be
much less dramatic, but he
still managed to impress a
large audience of publishing
professionals — one of the last
bastions of Macintosh loyalty
— ^wath demonstrations of fast
new hardware, an LCD mon-
itor, and an updated version
of Apple’s ColorSync color-
management software. He
also announced that Apple
will make ColorSync available
for Alicrosoft Windows.
Toasting Intel In keeping
with Apple’s latest advertising
campaign, which touts the G3
CPU’s performance against
that of Intel’s Pentium II,
Jobs unveiled the 300MHz
Power Macintosh G3 (see
2 “The Build-to-Order Dilem-
0 ma,” May 1998) and prompt-
1 ly set it against a 333MITz
I Pentium Il-based Windows
NT workstation from Com-
paq. The Power Mac ap-
peared to be more than twice
as fast as the Compaq work-
station when performing a
series of Adobe Photoshop
operations. Then Jobs pre-
viewed a 400MHz G3 CPU
that uses copper-wiring tech-
nology developed by IBM; it
was about three times as fast
as the 333MHz Pentium II.
The first Macs to include
the new CPUs should appear
by early 1999, Jobs said,
adding that even faster hard-
ware is on the way.
Flat AAac Jobs used the
ke\mote to unveil Apple’s first
nonportable LCD monitor,
the 15.1 -inch Apple Suidio
Display. The monitor sup-
ports resolutions of up to
1,024 by 768 pixels and offers
all the advantages of LCDs: a
small footprint, low power
consumption, no flicker, and
minimal magnetic emissions.
It is scheduled to ship in May,
for S 1,999. This would have
been considered aggressive
pricing a few months ago, but
given recently plummeting
prices for LCD monitors,
Apple’s display should be in
the middle of the pack.
New ColorSync Jobs also
announced the availability of
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ColorSync 2.5, an updated
version of Apple’s color-man-
agement technology, and said
that Apple plans to make
ColorSync available for Win-
dows by the beginning of 1 999.
Joining Jobs on stage,
Adobe Systems’ CEO John
Wamock said that Adobe will
support ColorSync in future
Mac and Windows versions of
Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop,
Illustrator, and PageMaker;
the Mac versions of Illustrator
and PageMaker already sup-
port ColorSjTic.
Apple has long resisted
making its core soft\vare tech-
nologies available for V\1n-
dows, fearing that such moves
will negate the Mac’s remain-
ing advantages over the \Ym-
tel platform. But Linotype,
which developed the color-
matching software that un-
derlies ColorSync, has li-
censed the same technology
to Microsoft for inclusion in
Wndows. Apple thus gains
little by continuing to restrict
ColorSync to the Mac. With a
Windows version of Color-
Sync, Apple makes it more
likely that developers will
support the color-manage-
ment software in their cross-
platform products.
However, the move is
fraught with irony. In his key-
note, Jobs pointed out that
color management belongs
not in applications but in tlie
OS. But Microsoft — now sup-
posedly on a friendlier basis
with Apple — has its own color-
management plans for Win-
dow's. Like a Trojan horse,
ColorSync w'ill likely infiltrate
Wndows through applica-
tions such as Photoshop and
PageMaker; a Windows user
installing a new^ Adobe graph-
ics package w ill get ColorSync
as part of die bargain.
Meanwhile, Macintosh
users can download Color-
Sync 2.5 free from Apple’s
Web site (http://colorsync
.apple.com). New^ features
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by Stephen Beale
P repress-software devel-
opers are heeding the
call of the Acrobat as
Adobe Systems’ Port-
able Document For-
mat (PDF') gains favor among
publishing professionals as an
alternative to PostScript (see
“Get Prepress-Ready PDFs
from QuarkXPress,” else-
where in this issue). A year
after Adobe introduced Acro-
bat 3.0 — the first version of
the portable-document tech-
nology suitable for commer-
cial print production — ven-
dors are rushing to market
with PDF-saw}" graphics
software.
At the recent Seybold
New’ York electronic-publish-
ing conference, a long list of
developers, including Exten-
sis (503/274-2020, w’ww
.extensis.com). Intense Soft-
ware (604/244-3501, www
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Lantana Research (510/744-
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Originally limited to
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Adobe PageMaker, Illustrator,
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Preflight Pro 2.0, priced
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Enfocus (303/393-7282,
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duced its own PDF-based
preflighting softw^are, En-
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Reader. In addition to in-
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for print, it can also ensure
that files are optimized for
online posting.
EnFocus PitStop is a $295
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Intense Software an-
nounced PDF Embedder, a
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bat Exchange (also part of
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ate a PDF file wdthin the file
itself. If your ser\dce bureau
has trouble printing the PDF
file, it can use the vendor’s
New Printers Boost Photo Quality
EPSON AMERICA (310/782-0770, WWW.EPSON.COM),
which set the printer market on its ear in 1997 with a series
of popular Stylus Pro ink-jet printers, is at it again, with two
new photo printers and two additions to the Stylus Color
800 line. The $300 Stylus Photo 700 offers features com-
parable to those of the $500 Stylus Photo, which it replaces.
Like its predecessor, it uses a six-color printing process, but
it also boosts the original 720-by-720-dpi resolution to
1 ,440 by 720 dpi. Maximum size on banner paper Is 8.5 by
44 Inches. The $500 Stylus Photo EX features a wider, 1 1 .7-
inch Imaging area.
The Stylus Color 850, priced at $400, features faster
print speeds, smaller dots, and better-looking photos than
the Stylus Color 800. The $550 Stylus Color 850N adds a
built-in Ethernet print server.— macworld staff
26 June 1 998 MACWORLD
news
free UnEmbed plug-in to
extract the components in
their native formats and fix
the problem.
Lantana’s Crackerjack
Pilot is a $995 batch-process-
ing program for Crackerjack,
an Acrobat Exchange plug-in
that lets you control color
separations, screening, and
other prepress settings in a
PDF file. Crackerjack Pilot
lets you create a variety of hot
folders in which PDF files are
automatically processed by
Crackerjack. Lantana, which
plans to ship the add-on in the
second quarter, will also offer
a $1,395 bundle that includes
Crackerjack.
Acrobat Imposes Several
vendors, including DK&A
Prepress (619/488-81 18,
ww-w.dka.com). Electronics
for Imaging (EFI; 650/286-
8600, www.efi.com), and
Quite Software (www'.quite
.com), demonstrated PDF-
based software for creating
electronic impositions (forms
in which pages are arranged
for printing).
Quite ’s $325 Quite Im-
posing and $629 Quite Impos-
ing Plus are Acrobat
Exchange plug-ins
that let you arrange
pages from one or
more PDF files into
relatively simple plate
layouts. The Plus
version adds step and
repeat, bleed defini-
tion, page extraction,
and other functions
to the basic package.
EFFs new Doc-
Builder Pro software,
to be sold with its
Fiery print servers, uses the
PDF format to assemble pages
for output on digital copiers.
In December, DK&A
announced a PDF import
option for In Position 2.1, a
$3,000 stand-alone imposi-
tion program that also
imports QuarkXPress, Page-
Maker, EPS, TIFF, PICT,
and PostScript files.
I graphics |
Mac Software
Abounds at
Seybold Show
MAC-ONLY PLUG-INS
AMONG HIGHLIGHTS
by Macworld Staff
A pple’s market share
may be hovering
below 5 percent, but
graphics-software
developers still see
gold among Mac users. At the
recent Seybold New York
electronic-publishing confer-
ence, a host of graphics ven-
dors introduced new software
for the Macintosh — some of it
available only for the Mac.
New Fractals Many of tlie
new Mac-only products are
Adobe Photoshop plug-ins.
Altamira Group (818/556-
6099, w^ww. altamira -group
.com) announced an en-
hanced $300 version of Gen-
uine Fractals, a Photoshop
plug-in that compresses
medium-resolution images —
those scanned at 15MB to
25iVIB— into 3MB-to-5MB
Fractal Image Format files
that can then be decom-
pressed to sizes much larger
than the original.
Genuine Fractals Pro
supports CMYK and other
color spaces along with the
original program’s RGB. It’s
also faster and adds a lossless-
compression option. The
company will continue to offer
the original Genuine Fractals
package for $160.
Silvertone is a $350
Photoshop plug-in from
Intense Software (604/244-
3501, www.intensesoftw^are
.com) that lets you create
color separations with metal-
lic inks. It joins the company’s
Pow^erTone, a $250 Photo-
shop plug-in for generating
duotones.
Monaco Systems (978/
749-9944, w'w'w.monacosys
.com) introduced a Mac-only
color-management tool,
MonacoProof, that lets you
create industrj^-standard de-
vice profiles and Photoshop
color-lookup tables for digital
cameras, scanners, and moni-
tors. The $1,195 package also
includes MonacoPreview, a
Photoshop plug-in for proof-
ing images on-screen.
Corel Tries Again Al-
though there were plenty of
Mac-only products at Sey-
bold, most graphics-software
vendors have committed to a
cross-platform strategy.
Among them, Corel (613/
728-0826, www.corel.com)
previewed CorelDraw 8, a
new version of its graphics-
software suite. CorelDraw 6,
the first release of the soft-
ware for the Mac, drew less-
than -stellar reviews from
graphics professionals. The
new version includes such
features as object transparen-
cy; a customizable interface;
and support for drag and
drop, AppleScript, and
Photoshop plug-ins. Corel
has also replaced Artisan, a
weak image-editing program
included in CorelDraw^ 6,
with a new' Mac version of
Photo-Paint, w'hich offers
features more on a par with
those in Adobe Photoshop.
Liberated Software Lino-
type CPS (516/434-2793,
www.linocolor.com) an-
nounced that it will offer
\^suaLab, its scanning soft-
w'are, as a stand-alone $495
package called VisuaLab Elite
5.0. The sofnvare, w'hich
automatically optimizes
scanned images, currently
supports Umax flatbed scan-
ners, but Linotype says that it
is developing drivers for other
scanners as well. Linot)y)e
w'ill also offer a version of the
software, VisuaLab DCam
5.1, for digital cameras.
Newtek (210/370-8000,
w'\vw. newtek.com), developer
of LightWave 3D, for profes-
sional 3-D animators, has
rolled many of that program’s
modeling and rendering fea-
tures into Inspire, a $495 3-D
package aimed at graphic
designers and multimedia
producers.
I multimedia |
New Software
Heats Up Web
Animation
VENDORS SQUARE OFF
WITH NEW PROGRAMS
by Stephen Beale
G iven the wide use of
animation on the
Web, it may be sur-
prising that a share-
ware program — GIF-
Builder — remains the most
popular Web animation pro-
gram for many designers.
Sensing an opportunity, three
graphics-software titans —
Adobe Systems (408/536-
6000, www.adobe.com), Ex-
tensis (503/274-2020, www'
.extensis.com), and Macro-
media (415/252-2000, www
.macromedia .com) — have
introduced packages that
make it easier to create GIF
animations for the Web.
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Adobe’s ImageReady and
Macromedia’s FireWorks,
each priced at $300, are
designed to provide complete
environments for creating still
and animated GIF images.
Both programs let you
remove colors while using
previews to show the impact
on image quality. Adobe’s
software, scheduled to ship in
the second quarter, borrows
many features from Photo-
shop. For example, it uses lay-
ers to store animated objects;
you can move an object and
then invoke a “tweening”
function to create intermedi-
ate frames.
Macromedia’s software in-
cludes vector- and bitmapped-
graphics tools along witli a text
window that offers kerning,
scaling, and leading controls.
FireWorks is scheduled to ship
this summer; a public beta is
currently available on Macro-
media’s Web site.
Extensis’s $100 Photo-
Animator lets you create
timeline animations that can
be exported as GIF files or
Photoshop layers. You can
also import Photoshop layers
for conversion into anima-
tions. The software should be
available by the time you read
this; Extensis is offering it for
$70 until June 30.
Open Vectors Mong with
FireWorks, Macromedia has
also announced Flash 3, a new
version of its vector-anima-
tion sofmare that supports
object transparency, sound
synchronization, and shape
morphing between frames.
The upgrade also lets you
embed the Shockwave Flash
Player inside Flash anima-
tions destined for CD-ROMs
or diskettes; double-clicking
on the Flash animation
launches the player. The soft-
ware, scheduled to ship in
May, will sell for $300 by itself
or for $500 as part of the
Design in Motion suite, which
also includes FreeHand 8.
Macromedia has long
been seeking to establish
Flash as a standard for vector
animation on the Web. Now
facing competition from
Apple’s QuickTime 3.0, which
includes a new vector-anima-
tion track, Macromedia has
decided to make the Flash file
specification available to other
software developers. At pre-
sent, only Macromedia Direc-
tor and Macromedia Flash can
produce Flash animations;
now other vendors will be able
to incorporate Flash export
capabilities into their products.
Likely candidates include Lari
Software’s (919/968-0701, www
.larisoftware.com) Electrifier
Pro and Pace Works’ (650/
578-6765, www.paceworks
.com) ObjectDancer, which
each support the QuickTime
3.0 vector track.
“JOBS WOWS PUBLISHERS
WITH NEW HARDWARE"
continued from page 26
include AppleScript support,
monitor-calibration software,
and a plug-in architecture
that will let you access other
vendors’ calibration software
through the Mac OS Moni-
tors & Sound control panel.
Apple also provides Color-
Sync Photoshop plug-ins and
sample AppleScript scripts for
automating common color-
management tasks.
Adobe’s Warnock had an
announcement of his own,
informing the Seybold audi-
ence that the next version of
Illustrator would support
AppleScript. An Adobe repre-
sentative demonstrated an
Illustrator plug-in written in
AppleScript that generates
updated city labels and tem-
peratures on a weather map.
Uptick Jobs’s keynote
came at a heady time for
Apple. As of mid-March, most
Wall Street analysts were pre-
dicting that Apple would show
a profit for its second fiscal
quarter — achieving its first
back-to-back profitable quar-
ters in years. The Wall Street
Journal, which in past months
has taken a dim view of
Apple’s prospects, described it
in March as the best-perform-
ing computer stock of the
year. However, Apple still
lacks a permanent CEO and
much of its improved financial
performance is due to cost
cutting rather than rising Mac
sales. In late March, Apple
board member Edgar
Woolard told the Dow Jones
news service that the board
would like to see Jobs contin-
ue as CEO, with or without
biteiiin in his job title.
Jobs promised that Apple
would have a product for the
consumer market by this fall.
Apple is reportedly develop- o
ing an under-$ 1,000 Mac sys- 9
tern, code-named Artemis, §
that includes a G3 CPU. I
Nikon Cameras Challenge Olympus
WHEN YOU'RE KING OF THE HILL. EVERY-
one's trying to take you down. As Olympus
(516/844-5000, www.olympus.com) strug-
gles to meet demand for its $1,300, 1,280-
by-960-pixel-resolutlon D-600L digital cam-
era — Macworld's hardware product of the
year (see "The Mac's Brightest Stars," March
1998) — Nikon (516/547-4200, www.nikon
.com) has introduced the CoolPlx 900, which
offers the same megapixel resolution and 3x
zoom capability, for an estimated street price
of $900. Scheduled to ship in May, the cam-
era stores images in JPEG format on Com-
pactFlash cards; you can choose from three
levels of compression.
Nikon has also introduced the CoolPix
600, a $600 digital camera that offers a max-
imum 1,024-by-768-pixel resolution. The
price includes a docking station with video-
out and serial ports plus a battery recharger.
Olympus isn't sitting still. Its new
D-340L camera offers 1,280-by-960-pixel
resolution, but no optical-zoom capability, for
$800. Similar in design to the D-320L, it
stores images on a 4MB SmartMedia solid-
state floppy-disk card included in the pack-
age. Olympus also has reduced the prices of
its other digital cameras: the D-220L, from
$500 to $400; the D-320L, from $700 to
$600; and the D-500L, from $900 to $800.
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FreeHand 8
TOP DRAWING PROGRAM
HEAPS ON THE FEATURES,
STILL NEEDS FACELIFT
T he decade-long struggle
between Macromedia FreeHand
and Adobe Illustrator for Post-
Script drawing dominance has
turned into something of a trounc-
ing in recent years. If this were a boxing
match, we would see FreeHand throwing
punch after furious punch as Illustrator
dodged, cringed, and ducked.
And just when you thought the fight
couldn’t get any bloodier, FreeHand 8
strides in witli a new arsenal of features —
translucent fills, lens options, freehand
reshaping tools, effects filters, customiz-
able shoncuts, support for exporting vec-
tor-based Web animations, and more.
But if this is such an obvious mis-
match, why haven’t the judges called off
the fight? Why does Illustrator remain
the more popular program on the Mac,
and why is it picking up steam under
Windows? Although Illustrator has fewer
moves than FreeHand, it executes them
with greater style. After the recent
streamlining of Illustrator in version 7
(see Reviews, August 1997), FreeHand’s
interface feels bloated and chaotic. While
FreeHand 8 has made strides in usability
and ease of use, it still plays host to a col-
lection of inconsistent palettes, oddball
tools, and redundant commands.
Make no mistake: FreeHand 8 is
faster, more fle.xible, and more powerful
REAL PRODUCTS
REAL RATINGS
than Illustrator. And now that Macro-
media has redesigned the packaging
(eliminating Pat, the androgynous, pen-
wielding mascot, in the process), many
artists are likely to take the product more
seriously. Even so, Illustrator remains a
contender, if for no other reason than that
its relatively few capabilities — which just
so happen to be the ones artists use on a
daily basis — are easier to find.
Going Where PostScript Doesn’t Go
Unlike Illustrator, which saves documents
as pure PostScript files, FreeHand saves
in a native, non-PostScript format. As a
result. Illustrator is limited to functions
the PostScript page-description language
supports; in contrast, FreeHand can pret-
ty much do as it pleases.
A case in point is FreeHand 8’s Lens.
Introduced four years ago by CorelDraw 5
for Windows, a Lens effect uses one object
to modify the objects behind it. For exam-
ple, you might fill an object with a translu-
cent color that mixes with the colors of the
objects behind it. This is child’s play in a
pi.xel editor such as Adobe Photoshop, but
because PostScript can’t rasterize translu-
cent vectors, it’s a challenge for drawing
programs. FreeHand’s solution is to ren-
der objects in the background when saving
and printing EPS files. |
Translucency is only one of several °
Lens effects in FreeHand. You can also I
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magnify a collection of objects, invert
them, and apply a monochromatic color
scheme. You can even change the focal
point so that the source of the effect is
somewhere otlier than direcdy behind the
lens (see “One Drawing Controls Them
AH”). The result is a series of dynamic
effects that leaves Illustrator’s color-mix-
ing-path operations in the dust. Com-
pared to Corel Draw’s Lens effects, how-
ever, FreeHand’s still need some work:
you can’t apply a Lens effect to editable
text, you can’t multiply or screen objects
that contain color, and FreeHand has an
annoying habit of restoring the focal
point to its default setting when you
switch from one Lens effect to another.
Painterly Editing Options
FreeHand 8 offers several new functions
designed to flatten the learning curve for
new users and expand the range of edit-
ing options for more-experienced folks.
Borrowing again from Corel Draw, Free-
Hand lets you double-click on one or
more selected objects to enter the trans-
formation mode. In this mode, you can
drag a corner handle to scale or you can
drag outside the selection to rotate, as in
Photoshop. It’s incredibly intuitive, and I
prefer it to using FreeHand’s crusty old
scale and rotate tools.
FreeHand 8 ships with several new
effects Xtras lifted from the world of
painting software. The Graphic Hose,
inspired by MetaCreations’ Painter,
deposits a series of objects as you drag
across the page; the Emboss command
adds beveled edges; the Shadow tool
adds a hard or soft drop shadow; and the
xMirror tool reflects a selected object
multiple times to create a Spyrograph
effect. Not all these Xtras lend them-
One Drawing Controls Them All Using FreeHand
8's Lens inspector, I assigned each of these circles a
special fill effect, all linked to the fellow in the middle.
If I so much as reshape his eyebrow, FreeHand will
automatically change the other objects to follow suit.
selves readily to an object-oriented envi-
ronment — for example, the Graphic
Flose is sensitive to neither pressure nor
direction, as it is in Painter — but they
add a little spice to the sometimes hum-
drum world of vector drawing.
My favorite new editing option is the
flawed but promising Freeform tool. The
bad news is that the tool tries to be too
many things at once; an overabundance of
preference settings and bewildering per-
formance in certain modes are likely to
turn off many users. But if you ignore the
options and just experiment, you’ll dis-
cover a pressure-sensitive modeling tool
that lets you shape paths by rubbing it
against them. It’s hardly a precision tool,
but it’s great for achieving a hand-drawn
look (see “Working Shapes like Clay”).
The Big Interface
FreeHand has never presented the most
tighdy structured, logical interface on the
block. But in the last version or two, the
program has lurched dangerously toward
the on-screen equivalent of mob rule by
permitting new features to take prece-
dence over structural organization. Free-
Hand 8 boasts a main toolbox, two
palettes to house all the Xtras, three pre-
defined button bars, five multipanel
inspectors, and a mishmash of random-
size palettes. Some commands are found
in tw^o or three menus; others are buried
two or three panels deep.
If you don’t like FreeHand’s default
interface, make up one of your own. You
can assign your own keyboard shortcuts
or choose from a list of predefined set-
tings designed to mimic the keyboard
equivalents in QuarkXPress and Adobe
PageMaker, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
Your new' shortcuts are then listed in the
menus next to the appropriate com-
mands. A special keyboard trick allows
you to drag tools out of one tool bar and
drop them onto another w'ithout wading
through a dialog box.
I have two problems with this cus-
tomizability. First, FreeHand doesn’t take
it far enough: Xtras are off-limits, so you
can’t move favorites such as the eyedrop-
per and spiral tool to more-convenient
locations, and you can’t add or delete
menu commands, as you can in Micro-
soft Word. Second, it feels like a cop-
out — is FreeHand really giving us a new
feature, or is it saddling us with the
responsibility for managing a lumbering
interface? I’d say it’s a little of both.
B
c
Working Shapes like Clay Starting with a rectangle
(A), I used the new Freeform tool to push and pull the
shape until I arrived at a lumpy bat outline (B), adding
most of the finishing touches (C) with the pen tool.
Macworld’s Buying Advice
If you’re a FreeHand loyalist, the program’s
slightly enlarged smorgasbord of palettes
and button bars isn’t likely to bug you. In
fact. I’d go so far as to predict you’ll love
FreeHand 8. Like versions 5 and 7 before it,
this ambitious upgrade offers user-request-
ed enhancements. In addition to offering
those I’ve already mentioned, it lets you ras-
terize objects in place, view' artwork in a
pared-down but faster preview' mode, fill
open paths, save custom views, and e.xport
artw'ork in EPS fonnat without revisiting a
dialog box. And FreeHand is available as
part of the Design in Motion Suite, which
also includes Flash 2 (for creating Web
graphics and animation) and Insta.html 2
(for exporting FreeHand files as HTML).
But if you haven’t sw itched to Free-
Hand, the enhancements in version 8 may
not be sufficient to lure you away from
Illustrator. As Macromedia surely know^s
by now, loading a superfast program with
lots of meaty features is no guarantee that
artists will welcome you with open arms.
FreeHand launches several times faster
than the slow-loading Illustrator, and
most of its operations are faster as well,
but this speed is mitigated by a clumsy
interface that too often impedes progress.
FreeHand is die best drawing program on
either platfonn, but at times I’d still rather
be using Illustrator.— deke McClelland
RATING: MM PROS: Dynamic Lens effects
let you mix and magnify objects: easy to transform
objects; straightforward Freeform reshaping tool;
customizable shortcuts and button bars. CONS:
Confusing, overcrowded interface. COMPANY:
Macromedia (415/252-2000, www.macromedia
com). COMPANY'S ESTIMATED PRICE:
$399; Design in Motion Suite, $499.
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Microsoft Office 98
IT'S BIG, IT'S PRICEY, BUT IT'S REALLY GOOD SOFTWARE
E very now and then, history
takes a seemingly impossible mm.
A polio vaccine is developed. The
Berlin Wall falls. And now this: a
humbled Microsoft bends over
backward to embrace the Macintosh way.
Although it has essentially the same vast
feamre list ak its Windows counterpart,
iVIicrosoft’s Office 98 productivity suite —
consisting of Word, Excel, and Power-
Point — adds genuine Macintosh ele-
gance. AlacinTalk speech. Drag and Drop
editing, and QuickTime are richly imple-
mented; Word has a WYSIMWG Font
menu; and the manuals are written and
illustrated as though the Macintosh were
the only computer on earth.
The Macintosh Way
When it comes to installing Office 98,
xMicrosoft has done something for the
Macintosh that it doesn’t do too often:
innovate. You can install Office simply by
dragging a folder from the CD-ROM to
your hard disk (see “Microsoft Repents:
Office 98 Makes Up for Past Sins,” March
1998). You don’t even have to restart. In
fact. Office 98 programs still launch —
after a pause to load the necessary shared
libraries — even with all extensions off.
Quick launching is one of Office 98 ’s
most attractive feamres. On a G3 Power
Mac, for example. Word is ready to accept
input a mere three seconds after you dou-
ble-click on its icon. The psychological
effect of this immediacy is enormous,
making these huge programs feel as nim-
ble as ClarisWorks.
Internet feamres abound in Office 98.
The primary programs let you save doc-
uments as Web pages or attach a docu-
ment to a message in your favorite e-mail
program. Word can even Web pages,
either off your hard disk or directly from
the Web. And all three programs let you
create blue, underlined links that open
live Web pages or files on your hard drive.
The three manuals offer task-orient-
ed overviews of each program; if you need
more information, you summon the
searchable online help system from a
menu or by clicking on the Assistant, an
animated, entertaining character in a tiny
QuickTime window that occasionally
offers pointers while you work.
However you get to the help pro-
gram, it offers step-by-step instructions
for whatever task you’re interested in.
Unformnately, this approach breaks down
when the instructions involve menu com-
mands: since the help program becomes
the active application, those menu com-
mands are no longer available.
Word 6 R.I.P.
Word 98 represents the most successful
overhaul in the Office suite: it’s smooth,
stable, and full of pleasant surprises.
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Ordering on the Menus To edit an Office 98 pro-
gram's menus, you summon a duplicate, editable
menu bar (shown here beneath the real one). Your
changes become part of the actual menus.
Examples: Word 98 proposes the first line
of the document as the title when you save
for the first time. If you poke the cursor
near the top of the window, as though
you’re seeking a way to change the mar-
gin, the ruler slides smoothly into view.
(You see a similar animation when new
text pushes paragraphs downward — they
slide, rather than jerking as they do in the
V\^indows version.) And if you tr)^ to open
a corrupted document, the Assistant
offers to salvage what text it can.
Many of the glitziest features, such as
the table-drawing pencil, the ty^e-twist-
ing Word x\rt, and the goofy but enter-
taining AutoSummarize feature, make
terrific demos but are of little importance
in daily work. Fortunately, most of Micro-
soft’s considerable effort has been expend-
ed on little things that do matter. You’ll
become attached, for e.xample, to the con-
trol-key-activated contextual menu that
offers synonyms for any word you click
on. Style sheets can now update them-
selves when you change a single occur-
rence. And the Style menu itself is WWSI-
VWG, showing the names of the styles
with the correct size, font, and color.
As you ty^De, subtle colored underlines
flag spelling and grammar errors; control-
click on a flagged word to view a pop-up
menu of correction suggestions. If you
prefer the usual after-the-fact method of
spell checking, you’ll be equally pleased:
the Spelling dialog box shows the error
in context and in its original type style.
You can correct the error by typing
directly into this display or by double-
clicking on a word in the suggestion list.
Microsoft has done an excellent job of
packing vast power into a comprehensi-
ble, modern interface. But if you don’t
like Microsoft’s interface, you can always
design your own (see “Ordering on the
Menus”). Fifteen minutes of reading the
online help will teach you to add, delete,
rearrange, and rename menus, menu
commands, and tool bars. (A re-creation
of Word 5.Ts menu bar is a click away for
those still using that beloved, seven-year-
old version.)
Smarter Excel
Since Excel already owns 99 percent of
the Macintosh spreadsheet market, you
wouldn’t think the company had much
incentive to improve the program. Yet
Excel, too, shows evidence of much pro-
grammer soul-searching.
Serious number crunchers will appre-
ciate Excel 98’s ability to apply certain col-
ors or type formats globally to cells that
meet a certain condition — negative num-
bers can turn red, for example. The long
list of other high-end features includes
data validation, new chart types, and per-
sistent formatting in pivot tables. Espe-
cially impressive is Microsoft’s implemen-
tation of shared spreadsheets: changes
made by different people appear in differ-
ent colors, and the person who made the
change is identified in a pop-up balloon
when you p>oint to a changed number.
Excel’s own numbers have improved,
too. Each cell can hold up to 32,767 char-
acters, each spreadsheet can have 65,535
rows, and each Excel document consists
of multiple tabbed spreadsheets.
Again, it’s the little things that will
please the most people. The multiple-
level Undo command alone is worth the
32 June 1 998 MACWORLD
price of upgrading. Just as Word quiedy
corrects common spelling errors as you
type, so Excel watches for typical formu-
la-entr}^ mistakes. In Print Preview, you
can manually adjust the dotted lines that
represent page breaks. And small anima-
dons — such as the visible sliding of e.xist-
ing columns when you insert a new one —
give Excel a solid, polished feel.
Presenting PowerPoint
Microsoft’s slide-show program, Power-
Point, is nowhere near as complex as Word
and Excel, nor are the improvements as dra-
matic. The scattershot list of new features
generally falls into the Office 98 Grand
Overhaul categories of Internet, help, inter-
face, and collaboration. As in Word and
Excel, for example, coworkers can add com-
ments — here, in the form of yellow “sticky
notes” — to your file. Multiple Undo is a
welcome enhancement, as is the ability to
save a presentation as a Web site (aldiough
the result is, by default, one gigantic, full-
screen graphic per Web page).
PowerPoint’s slide-making apparatus
has been beefed up, too. You get more
canned templates, animations, stretchable
shapes and arrows, and “action buttons”
(for jumping to another slide, a Web page,
or any file on your hard disk).
Two of the new common-sense fea-
tures are so good that you’ll never want
to be without them again. First, when you
prepare your presentation in the outline
view, a thumbnail of the actual finished
slide hovers nearby; no more flipping
back and forth between \tiews to see if all
your bullet points will fit. Second, you can
create slide-show subsets of a master show
within the same document — a great way
to repurpose material.
Office Extras
The Office 98 CD-ROM also includes
two programs that are available free from
Microsoft’s Web site: Outlook Express
(see “Tame Your E-Mail,” in this issue)
and Internet Explorer 4.0 (see Reviews,
May 1998). The advantages of getting
Outlook Express as part of Office are that
you can use Word’s spelling checker in
OE and Outlook’s address book for Word
mail merges. The downside is that OE
can’t connect to America Online or stuff
enclosures automatically. Explorer is also
a mixed bag; Alicrosoft’s latest Web
browser is rich with features but dog-
slow, and its new “active channels” aren’t
optimized for die Mac.
The rest of the CD-ROM’s many
extras are much more successful. Among
them are programs called Remove Office
98 and Remove Old Office Versions; a
batch processor for converting clumps of
Office documents from one format to
another; templates, clip art, and fonts; all
recent Mac OS updaters; and much more.
Big Numbers, Small Bugs
If software design were all that mattered.
Congress would pass a law forcing
ever)^one to install Office 98. Unfortu-
nately, the administrative aspects of
Office 98 aren’t nearly as appealing. For
example, the hardware requirements
show little respect for elderly Macin-
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The Secret Formula Un<derstanding formulas is
vastly easier in Excel 98 than in its predecessors. First,
you can build a formula by typing labels instead of
cell numbers. Second, when you double-click on a
formula cell, color coding helps you match up for-
mula components with the cells they refer to.
tosh models. Office 98 requires a
PowerPC machine, preferably 120xMHz
or faster, running System 7.5 or later.
Excel, Word, and PowerPoint want
6MB, 9MB, and 10MB of RAJVI, respec-
tively; add 4MB apiece to those numbers
if you don’t use Connectix RAjVI Dou-
bler or virtual memory.
The package isn’t cheap, either: S499
for the set, or $399 per stand-alone appli-
cation. (Add $100 for the Gold Edition,
which includes FrontPage, for Web
authoring; the Encarta multimedia ency-
clopedia; and the Bookshelf reference
tool.) Office 97 for Windows costs the
same but adds a database program, a rich-
ly feauired calendar/address book, and a
program called Microsoft Binder that lets
you roll multiple Office documents into
one file for easy distribution.
Macworld’s Buying Advice
Office 98 is a winner, but it’s not perfect.
On some machines. Word 98 conflicts
with RAM Doubler 2.0.2; the 2.0.3
updater solves the problem. A similar
updater will fix clashes with Adobe Type
Reunion. You can’t create a hyperlink to a
file whose name begins with a number. If
you drag a program out of its original fold-
er, you’re politely informed at the next
launch that it won’t Rin until you move it
back. And you could fill a hook with quib-
bles about individual features — in fact,
somebody did: Office 97 Annoyances
(O’Reilly, 1997) makes great reading.
Moreover, plenty of Mac users are
actually upset with the successful aspects of
Office 98. The shoddiness of the previ-
ous Office versions opened a temporary
window for such competitors as Claris-
Works, WordPerfect, and Nisus \AYiter;
now, widi Office 98 sure to be a smash hit,
we’re even less likely to see competition
in the Mac productivity-software market.
On the other hand, buying Microsoft
has its advantages. For example, technical
support is free (although not toll-free).
You can be confident that any significant
bugs will be fixed in a free update. You can
bet that Word 98 import filters will soon
crop up for use with QuarkXPress and
Adobe PageMaker. And you know your
documents can be freely exchanged witli
your Windows-using coworkers without
conversion or translation.
If you’re using Office 4.2, upgrade
immediately. If you’re using older ver-
sions, upgrade if you can handle the
equipment requirements. \\Tatever you
thought of Microsoft’s past Mac-software
experiments. Office 98 is a powerful,
intelligent, friendly package. This soft-
ware suite demonstrates that for the first
time in its histor\^, Microsoft truly under-
stands what “Macintosh elegance”
means.— DAVID pocue
Microsoft Office 98
OFFICE 98 MM
EXCEL 98 MM
POWERPOINT 98 MfV2
WORD 98 MM
PROS: Dramatically improved design; dozens of
smart, user-oriented features; fast launch times;
genuinely useful Internet integration. CONS:
Demanding equipment requirements; fewer
goodies than in Windows version. COMPANY:
Microsoft (800/426-9400, www.microsoft.com/
macoffice). LIST PRICE: $499 (upgrade, $299);
Gold Edition, $599 (upgrade, $399).
www.macworld.com June 1 998 33
Reiiens
Windows 95 Emulators
FEATURES GROW, PERFORMANCE STILL LAGS
A lthough the newest ver-
sions of Insignia Solutions’ Soft-
Windows 95 and Connectix’s
Virtual PC have gotten speedier
and do an impressive job of emu-
lating a Pentium-based PC, both prod-
ucts still fail to deliver the performance
of even a low-end Pentium-based PC.
On the surface, SoftV\%idows 95 hasn’t
changed dramatically, other than a re-
designed setup window that greatly simpli-
fies the task of configuring tlie program’s
Copy Across Platform Virtual PC lets you drag a
Mac folder to the PC environment
preferences. But under the hood, SoftWin-
dows 95 5.0 offers a much more sophisti-
cated emulation engine, including support
for SoundBlaster Pro, MMX, and Mac joy-
sticks. New drag-and-drop support lets you
copy text and pictures (not files) from Win-
dows by dragging to the Mac desktop.
Virtual PC 2.0 benefits from a bigger
overhaul. The program’s emulation engine
has been tweaked with the game-oriented
user in mind, pro\dding improved DirectX
support, better video emulation, and sup-
port for 3D 6c Voodoo Graphics accelerator
cards. Virtual PC 2.0 is also noticeably
faster than die previous version — Connec-
tix says it’s 25 to 40 percent speedier; I
clocked a 15 to 18 percent boost. Other
improvements include bidirectional copy
and paste, long-file-name support, and
cross-platform drag-and-drop file sharing.
In Maavorld Lab tests, SoftWindows
95 consistently performed faster than
Virtual PC. But although it’s the fastest
emulator, SoftWindows 95 is still three
times as slow — on average — as a has-been
90MHz Pentium PC. These speeds are
acceptable for occasional, nonintensive PC
use, but serious users will be disappointed.
SoftWindows 95 may offer faster
emulation, but Virtual PC wins in terms of
ease of use, setup, and configuration. To
copy a folder from your Mac to Virtual
PC’s virtual hard drive, for example, you
merely drag the file from die Finder into
the Windows environment. Conversely,
you can drag a Windows file to any Mac
folder to open the file with a Mac applica-
tion, all but eliminating the need to set up
cross-platform shared folders. But if you
want to share folders, you simply drag
them from the Finder and drop diem onto
the Shared Folder button in Virtual PC.
In contrast, SoftWindows 95 ’s
scheme for sharing drives and files is far
less elegant. The program doesn’t offer
die ability to drag files to and from Win-
dows; you have to cross the divide via
shared folders. You can share a folder by
dragging, but this works only for a single
folder mapped to the E: drive. You have to
set up subsequent shared folders one by
one using the Setup command, and if you
want to share more than three other fold-
ers, you have to use Windows 95 ’s Map
Network Drive command to manually
assign the folders to PC-drive letters.
Virtual PC also provides more-flexible
configuration options. SoftWindows, for
example, maps the PC’s right mouse button
to your Mac’s enter key, while Virtual PC
lets you choose die modifier key.
Macworld's Buying Advice
If you can live with performance that’s
three times as slow as a two-year-old Pen-
tium PC, both of these programs deliver
solid Windows 95 support for a great
price. SoftWindows is marginally faster,
but Virtual PC is less expensive and easi-
er to set up and use, making it the better
choice for putting Windows on your
Macintosh.— JOSEPH schorr
SoftWindows 95 5.0
RATING: m PROS: Improved speed; faster
than Virtual PC; drag-and-drop text and graph-
ics copying. CONS: Much slower than an old
Pentium; cumbersome folder sharing; can't drag
files between platforms. COMPANY: Insignia
Solutions (408/327-6500, www.insignia.com).
COMPANY'S ESTIMATED PRICE: S199.
Virtual PC 2.0
RATING: f ff Va PROS: Improved speed; drag
and drop between platforms; intuitive folder shar-
ing. CONS: Much slower than an old Pentium;
slower than SoftWindows 95. COMPANY: Con-
nectix (650/571-5100, www.connectix.com).
COMPANY'S ESTIMATED PRICE: S149.
Emulators: Still Dramatically Slower Than an Old PC
H Best result in test. Shorter bars are better. Times are in seconds.
Microsoft Access 7.0 CorelDraw 6.0 Borland Paradox 7.0 Lotus Word Pro 96
Connectix Virtual PC 2.0
Insignia Solutions SoftWindows ^5 5 0
NA*
1 ''Qj
Micron Millennium P90 (90MHz Pentium PC) ^
91 mm
75
113
108
* Product was unable to successfully complete this test
Behind Our Tests Our Windows productivity suite utilizes select tests from Ziff-Davis’s WinStone 97 benchmark (www.winstone.com). Emulators were
tested on a Power Mac 7300/200 equipped with 64MB of RAM, with 32MB of RAM allocated to Windows 95; the PC was equipped
with 32MB of RAM.— Macworld Lab testing supenrised by Susan Sllvius
34 June 1 998 MACWORLD
DayStar Millennium G3/307
HIGHLY EXPANDABLE SYSTEM IS FAST, INEXPENSIVE
Y ou MIGHT ALMOST BELIEVE
that the xMac-clone industry^ is still
going strong: a licensee has intro-
duced a sy^stem diat outpaces any-
thing Apple has to offer. Mac-
Works* DayStar Millennium G3/307
claims PowerPC 750 processor speeds of
307MHz, but Macworld Lab tests show
that it actually runs faster — at 322MHz —
thanks to a 1MB backside cache. (An
upcoming Millennium model runs at least
at 360MHz.) No other sy-stem comes
close; not Apple’s new 300MHz Power
Macintosh G3 tower, not even prototyq^e
CHRP systems that never saw production.
But the Millennium G3/307 offers
more than raw speed. Using the same case
design as the well-regarded DayStar Gen-
esis MP, the Millennium is the ideal sys-
tem for 3-D modelers and digital-video
producers. (Note that only the Alillcnni-
um*s 604e version supports multiple
CPUs.) It offers easily accessible bays for
seven hard drives, and two e.xternal bays
for removable-media drives (one houses
a CD-ROM drive).
The system also sports si.x PCI slots,
which high-end users will easily fill.
(Apple’s G3 Macs offer just three.) In the
Millennium model we tested, three slots
held an ATI Nexus G.\ video
cxird, a 1 OOBaseT Ethernet card,
and an Ultra Wide SCSI-3
card. (The motherboard comes
with lOBaseT Ethernet, an
external SCSI-1 port, and an
internal SCSI-2 connector as
standard equipment.) Our test
sy^stem — which had two 9GB
hard drives, an Iomega Jaz
drive, and 128MB of R^ViVl —
costs S6,049. The base model
— which comes with a 4GB
hard drive, 64MB of RAM, and
a 4MB ATI XClaim \T^ video
card — costs S3, 060. A key-
board is extra in both s\^stems.
Add digital-\ideo, sound, and .MPEG-2
cards, and you have a multimedia monster.
And don’t worry about RAM expansion —
there are 12 DLVLM slots, compared with
3 in Apple’s G3 Mac. All this expansion
explains why the case is 50 pounds and
twice the size of an Apple tower.
Macworld Lab was unable to get an
initial unit to work reliably. MacWorks
chalked up the problem to a conflict with
the installed iXMicro TwinTurbo card;
we had no problems with the Nexus GA
card sent to replace it.
Although the Millennium G3’s tech-
nology is sound — a combo of DayStar’s
proven motherboard and case and Power-
Logix’s fast new G3 CPU card — the com-
pany is an unknown. DayStar Digital went
bankrupt last year, and MacWorks bought
die rights to its name and products. Also,
Apple almost certainly w^on’t renew* any
clone makers’ Mac OS licenses after July^,
so long-term support for the Millennium
remains in question.
Also be wary^ of MacWorks’ pricing.
All prices listed on the company’s Web
site reflect a 2 percent cash discount, but
Macworld recommends that you never pay
cash for a mail-order product. MacWorks
also offers a limited return policy: you
can return only defective products.
Macworld's Buying Advice
The DayStar Millennium G3/307 is a
fantastic system for demanding content
creators. If you can handle the uncertain-
ty of buying from a company that might
not be around to support you in the
future, then this system is a worthw'hile
investment.— GALEN gruman
RATING: MM PROS: Fastest Mac OS system
available; huge expansion capacity. CONS: Long-
term support uncertain. COMPANY: MacWorks
(913/599-6227, www.macworks.com). DIRECT
PRICE: Base model. $3,060; as tested. $6,049.
DayStar G3 System Is New Speed Champ
■■ Best overall performance. Longer bars and higher numbers are better. ^ New system. Bold Indicates the best result in a subsystem test
SpeedMark scores are relative to that of a Power Mac 7100/80, which is assigned a score of 1.0. MacBench 4.0 scores are relative to that of a Power
Mac 6100/60, which is assigned a score of 100.
SPEEDMARK
► MacWorks DayStar Millennium G3 5.7
► Apple Power Madntosh C3/3(X) tower prototype 5.3
Apple Power Macintosh G3/266 tower 4.5
Umax SuperMac S900Base with Maxpowr Pro+ 250 4.5
Apple Power Madntosh 9600/300 3.9
'RAID disabled.
MACBENCH
Processor
Disk
Graphics
1,169
653*
698
1,054
329
855
895
362
566
907
332
547
744
351
486
Behind Our Tests Speed/Vtark runs 54 real-worW tasks In 15 programs and the Finder; MacBench 4.0 (available at www.macbcnch.com) measures performance of the
processor (CPU/cache), disk, and graphics subsystems in Isolation from other components. Test systems were equipped with 32MB of RAM and
configured with a 512K disk cache. Displays were set to 16-bit color In 832-by-624-pixel resolution.— Macworld Lab testing supervised by Gil Loyola
www.macworld.com June 1 998 35
ReHieuis
MYOB Accounting Plus 7.5
CAPABLE PACKAGE, BUT FEW IMPROVEMENTS
W ITH THE RECENT DEMISE OF
competing products such as
Peachtree Accounting and Big
Business, Best Ware’s MYOB
Accounting takes over as the
sole moderately priced, full-featured
double-entry accounting program for the
Mac. Happily, MYOB Accounting Plus
7.5 readily satisfies most business
accounting requirements, offering stan-
dard accounting functions and payroll,
inventory, and job-tracking features. The
changes introduced in version 7.5, how-
ever, are minor.
The Learning Curve
MYOB’s Easy Setup Wizard helps you
create your chart of accounts, letting you
build from scratch or modify those of 100
sample businesses. The program walks
you through setting preferences (such as
setting an auto-save interval and specify-
Step by Step MYOB's Easy Setup Wizard helps you
quickly customize the program to suit your needs.
ing whether to allow edits of completed
transactions or to require reversing trans-
actions), meaking the chart of accounts,
and providing starting balances. From
there, you move through specifying cred-
it terms, creating customer and vendor
lists, setting up payroll, and selecting
linked accounts for purchases and sales.
Although MYOB offers true double-
entry accounting, you’re shielded from
making balancing transactions. MYOB
handles this process transparently using
the aforementioned linked accounts^ where
you specify^ the accounts affected by par-
ticular transactions. (Customer receipts,
for example, can be automatically credit-
ed to a particular checking account.)
If you’re familiar with other account-
ing programs, you should have little trou-
ble adapting to MYOB’s workflow. The
program offers extensive help facilities,
including sample reports, procedure
guides, and step-by-step cue cards for less
common procedures. Although MYOB’s
graphic interface is unusual, most experi-
enced users will catch on quickly. The
procedure-oriented manual explains the
precise steps necessary to accomplish
standard accounting activities, such as
reversing particular types of transactions.
Nonaccountants, on the other hand,
may not fare so well. Although a multi-
media presentation explains accounting
principles and shows how two sample
businesses use the program, MYOB offers
no tutorial, and its manual leaves basic
questions unanswered.
For example, a nonaccountant like
myself might logically assume that pur-
chases would be tracked in MYOB’s
Purchases section. To complete each pay-
ment transaction in this manner, though,
you’d have to switch to the Bill Payments
area to complete an additional form. A call
to BestWare set me straight: to record all
purchases on a single screen, you must use
ATYOB’s Write Checks area, a less-than-
intuitive notion for financial novices. To
avoid this type of confusion, you’ll want to
seek the advice of a professional for help
with anything you don’t understand — beferre
you enter dozens of records. BestWare
offers 30 days of free technical support, as
well as referrals to certified consultants to
help you tackle tnily complex setups.
Simplified Data Entry
MYOB makes life easier in a number of
small yet significant ways. MTien you tab
out of an account field without entering
data, for e.xample, a pop-up list of accounts
appears. Vendor and customer fields can
be filled simply by typing the first few
unique letters of the company name.
xMYOB’s card file lets you store
addresses, phone numbers, credit terms,
sales-tracking information, and current
balances for all customers, vendors,
employees, and personal contacts. Al-
though it’s not a substitute for a dedicat-
ed PLM, you can use the card file to main-
tain a contact log, record time spent on
billable activities, and set recontact dates,
among other tasks.
You can customize MYOB’s built-in
reports by placing logos and other graph-
ics; adding static text elements; resizing
fields; and changing the font, size, and
color of your text. You can easily define
report criteria by specifying filters, con-
tact-group identifiers, and date ranges.
Reports can be saved, printed (individu-
ally or in batches), viewed on screen,
and — new to this version — saved as
HTML tables for viewing on die World
Wide Web or a company intranet.
iMYOB lets you import and export tab-
or comma-delimited files containing
accounting, inventory, and contact data,
but the xMacintosh product lacks the
OfficeLink automation features found in
the Windows version of MYOB. You can
also import data from QuickBooks (on
which Intuit has ceased development for
the Mac version), but the conversion
process has limitations you should be aware
of before switching to MYOB. (Details and
the conversion utility are both available at
www.bestware.com/updates.htm.)
Few New Features
The most notable change in the MYOB
7.5 upgrade is the program’s enhanced
AppleScript support, which enables
MYOB to exchange data with other appli-
cations. Unfortunately, no sample Apple-
Scripts are provided (BestWare says that
samples will be available on its Web site
over time). Other changes include the
ability to generate statements that cover
a particular date range, improvements to
the bank-reconciliation process, and the
ability to search by customer invoice
number or vendor purchase order.
Macworld’s Buying Advice
Although accounting novices may need
some hand-holding, MYOB Accounting
Plus 7.5 is a great value and an excellent
program for new users. The $69 upgrade,
however, is compelling only if you can
take advantage of the new HTML or
AppleScript capabilities.— steven schwartz
RATING: PROS: Easy setup; excellent
help facilities: extensive report selection. CONS:
Substandard tutorial; no sample AppleScripts.
COMPANY: BestWare (973/586-2200, www
.bestware.com). COMPANY'S ESTIMATED
PRICE: $149.
36 June 1 998 MACWORLD
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Reuievis
MacDrive 98 2.0
DISK MOUNTER ADDS NT SUPPORT
C LEARLY, WINDOWS NT IS FAST
becoming part of cross-platform
environments, and makers of
cross-platform utilities are rushing
to acid NT 4 capabilities to their
products. Media4 Productions’ MacDrive
98 is the latest utility to jump on the NT
bandwagon. The Mac-disk-mounting
utility’s newest version runs on both Win-
dows 95 and NT 4 and will supposedly
work smoothly with the forthcoming
Windows 98 release.
MacDrive 98 2.01 offers all the
strengths of its predecessor, MacDrive 95
1.3 (see “Mac Life Preserv'ers,” April
Easy Additions MacDrive 98 adds new file and cre-
ator information to its extension map by extracting
the appropriate data from Mac files.
1998), in addition to providing support
for both Windows 95 and NT 4. Among
the new version’s best features: support
tor SCSI hard drives as well as practically
any removable-media drives that both
Windows and the Mac OS recognize.
MacDrive integrates well into the Win-
dows interface, displaying Mac-disk-
formatting and -copying capabilities in
Windows’ contextual menus. And iVIac-
Drive lets yon access files from the Open
and Save dialog boxes of all programs, as
well as from the Windows Explorer (the
equivalent of the Mac’s Finder).
But xVIacDrive 98 does more than its
predecessor. My favorite new feature lets
you tell MacDrive 98 to read the Mac file
and creator type from a specific document
when adding a new file type to the pro-
gram’s extension map. The e.xtension map
tells MacDrive 98 which Windows file
extension to associate with each Mac file
and creator type, and vice v^ersa. These
file and creator types are not easily found,
which is why the program’s ability to
extract them is so helpful.
And, when you use Mac media, Mac-
Drive lets you create and decode Mac-
Binary files, which are perfect for network
transfer and remote uploading since they
typically take less space than more-
commonly-used Web-based formats such
as BinHex. MacDrive 98 can also decode
BinHex files from Mac media, giving you
the option (as with MacB inary) to store
the decoded file in Mac file format (retain-
ing the resource fork) rather than in PC
format (with the resource fork removed).
Also new is the ability to decide which
volumes in a dual-formatted Mac/PC
CD-ROM are loaded; MacDrive’s main
competitor, DataViz’s MacOpener 3.0,
also offers this feature.
WTien copying Mac files, NT users
can allow MacDrive 98 to retain the file’s
Mac resource fork, as long as the files are
being copied to a Mac-formatted disk or
to a iMac volume on an NTFS-formatted
hard disk created with NT’s Ser\dces for
Macintosh. Such native Mac volumes are
commonly used on NT servers.
MacDrive 98 does an excellent job of
mounting iMac volumes. In fact, it is so
aggressive in its efforts that it confusing-
ly mounted the remnants of my PC hard
disk’s original Mac partition, causing
Norton Utilities to choke on the phantom
data. It turns out that my DOS disk-
format utility left some of the disk’s space
unused, and — since the drive had origi-
nally been a Mac’s drive — portions of a
Mac partition remained that no other
Mac-disk mounter detected. Media4 pro-
vided a downloadable fix that allowed
MacDrive 98 to ignore my disk’s long-lost
Mac data.
Macworld’s Buying Advice
MacDrive 98 offers the best set of features
of all Mac-disk-mounting utilities, and
seamless integration into Windows makes
the program extremely easy to use. If you
use Windows 3.1, you’ll prefer Mac-
Opener 3.0 as your Mac-disk mounter.
But for everyone else, MacDrive 98 is the
utility of choice.— GALEN cruman
RATING: f V} PROS: Mounts Mac media
under Windows 95. 98. and NT 4; encodes and
decodes MacBinary files; makes it easy to add new
file types by importing Mac file and creator types.
CONS: None significant. COMPANY: Media4
Productions (515/225-7409. www.media4.com).
COMPANY’S ESTIMATED PRICE: $65.
Cinema 4D XL
FASTEST 3-D RENDERER FOR THE MAC
E lectricimage mas long been
the high-end (and most e.xpensive)
3-D animation package for the
Mac, sporting one of the fastest
tenderers around. The latest chal-
lenger to Electricimage’s throne, Maxon
Computer’s Cinema 4D XL 1 .0 (distrib-
uted by 3D Gear), has all the ingredients
of a great 3-D program. It can render
images faster than Electricimage; it packs
a full arsenal of pro-quality tools for mod-
eling (still missing from Electricimage)
and animation; and it lets you model, ani-
mate, and render in a single interface.
One of the main attractions of Cine-
ma 4D XL is an object-oriented hierarchy
that goes beyond the usual parent/child
system. XL offers an Object Manager
window that lets you transfer or duplicate
properties (such as texture, size, color, and
shadow casting) from object to object, an
efficient way to update large amounts of
object information in a complex scene.
But XL’s centerpiece is a lightning-fast
tenderer that can ray-trace high-polygon-
count scenes faster than any other software
Particular Particles In Cinema 4D XL, particles from
a particle emitter can be individual lights that cast
shadows. This scene has more than 40 light sources,
all quickly rendered with XL's ray tracer.
(including Electricimage’s Phong tender-
er). For example, a scene that would slow
down other tenderers — one with a highly
detailed model and numerous light
sources, transparencies, and soft shad-
ows — posed no problem for XL, which
zipped right through it to produce stun-
ning ray-traced images and animations.
The program is so fast, in fact, that ray
tracing is a perfectly viable preview option.
Cinema 4D XL includes impressive
tools for NURBS, spline, and Boolean
modeling, along with vertex-level editing.
38 June 1 998 MACWORLD
And its j^article system is simply awesome;
for example, each particle in a particle
effect can he a light source or even an ani-
mated object — to create, say, a school of
fish — resulting in some wild special
effects (see “Particular Particles”).
Equally impressive is XUs strong sup-
port for inverse kinematics: once an
object hierarchy is established, the IK
engine locks objects together and allows
natural movement when a link in the IK
chain moves. XUs “bones” tools let you
lay down a skeleton structure under an
object surface and warp that object based
on the skeleton’s movement.
The CD-ROM includes both Mac
and Windows NT v^ersions, something
production studios will love. Another
production-oriented advantage is that XL
can import files in a wide variety of for-
mats: Kinetix’s 3D Studio Max, Newtek’s
LightWave 3D, Adobe Illustrator Wave-
front, and DXF. Amazingly, imported
scenery files retain most of the necessary
elements, such as cameras, hghts, and tex-
tures. Cinema 4D XL also supports an
open plug-in architecture, which will
allow third parties to develop more-in-
depth modeling tools.
XL’s interface, unfortunately, is a
work in progress. Most of the windows
could use some graphical and iconic
touch-ups; the timeline could be more
tightly designed, perhaps to resemble
Adobe After Effects’; and the flat, gray
interface would benefit from some color.
In addition, the documentation lacks
tutorials and examples — a real shortcom-
ing in a program that has a learning cun^e
typical of high-end 3-D software.
Macworld's Buying Advice
With a blazingly fast tenderer and a
robust mix of modeling and animation
tools. Cinema 4D XL has the potential
to become the leading 3-D software for
the Macintosh. Although it’s not priced
for casual users, the program is well on
its way to becoming a must-have tool for
professional 3-D-production artists.
—DAVID BIEDNY AND TRAVIS ESTRELLA
RATING: MM PROS: Fast rendering: light
sourcing and object animation with particles: intu-
itive object hierarchy; IK support; variety of import
formats. CONS: Unpolished Interface; weak
manual. COAAPANY; 3D Gear (805/484-5804,
www.cinema4d.com). LIST PRICE: $1,995.
InterMapper 2.0
INEXPENSIVE NETWORK MONITOR
ECLIPSES THE COMPETITION
WORLD-CLASS NETWORK-
management tool even in its ini-
tial release (see Reviecvs^ Januar)^
1997), InterMapper, from Dart-
mouth College, offers a basic fea-
ture set that matches products costing ten
times as much. Version 2.0 puts Inter-
Mapper well ahead of the competition,
adding new feauires such as built-in Web
servdng, flexible traffic graphs, server
monitoring, and escalated notifications.
InterMapper combines a network-
discover)" and -mapping tool, network
monitoring, historical logging, traffic
Visualizing Traffic InterMapper's strip charts let
you display network traffic, measured at multiple
locations in your network, as a multicolor line graph.
graphing, and real-time traffic display
into a single application. With a powerful
interface, InterMapper is simplicity itself
to use: you launch it, and it discovers
devices on your network, automatically
locating and diagramming both AppleTalk
and TCP/IP devices. Once InterMapper
has drawn your network, you can use the
built-in diagram editor to rearrange nodes
and links, add descriptive text, and change
the icons for various devices. InterMap-
per’s monitoring function probes devices
and collects traffic statistics periodically,
displaying component status using color
codes and traffic loads using “marching
ants” to depict various data rates.
When the status changes, you can
trigger specific actions — e-mail mes-
sages, alpha pages (with optional pag-
ing software), Apple events, or appli-
cation launches — and use a schedule to
control w hen various actions can occur.
InterMapper is remotely controllable
via a secure Telnet log-in, letting you
check your netw'ork status even wdien
you’re away from the office.
The original InterMapper depicted
Ethernet hubs and switches as a single
device with one network connection; ver-
sion 2.0 shows every Ediernet port on a
hub or switch. That lets you display indi-
vidual hub and port connections and
monitor traffic flow ing on those connec-
tions. A built-in Web server gives any
browser access to InterMapper’s status
reports and network diagrams, letting you
observe netw^ork status from anywhere
on your netwwk. With IP-address secu-
rity, access is limited to authorized users.
InterMapper’s new strip charts graph
traffic statistics for up to six devices each;
you can plot traffic flow in packets or
bytes per second, error counts, or band-
width use. The graphs are flexible, let-
ting you expand or compress the timehne
and y-axis to zoom from a high-level view^
of several days to specific samples.
Notifications now' support a time
delay before firing, so you can escalate
notifications for sustained problem con-
ditions. For example, you might e-mail a
local technician if a device is dow n for five
minutes but page the network adminis-
trator if it’s still dowTi after an hour. And
you can now' customize probes for partic-
ular Internet sendees (such as HTTP) to
ensure, for example, that your Web serv-
er is still delivering pages to users.
The package includes a first-rate
user’s guide and tutorial in PDF format;
Dartmouth delivers regular updates on-
line and gives registered owners access to
beta releases. InterMapper still lacks one
feature that managers of large networks
would find useful, how'ever — SNMP trap
handling. The developers say that that
capability, originally expected in this
release, is still in the future.
Macworld's Buying Advice
No network monitor approached Inter-
Mapper’s original combination of fea-
tures, ease of use, and low cost. With an
array of new' capabilities — and no increase
in price — InterMapper is a better deal
than ever.— MEL beckman
RATING: ♦M» Va PROS: Automatic network
discovery and mapping: server monitoring: sta-
tistical graphs: built-in Web server. CONS: Still
no SNMP trap support. COAAPANY: Dartmouth
College (603/646-2643, www.dartmouth.edu/
netsoftware/intermapper/). LIST PRICE: $795.
www.macworld.com June 1 998 39
Reuieuis
Eudora Pro 4.0
POWERFUL BUT CLUNKY E-MAIL CLIENT
W ITH SO MUCH BUSINESS COM-
munication relying on e-mail,
having the right e-mail client can
make a big difference in produc-
ti\nty. Simple mail programs, like
the one built into Netscape Communicator,
are fine if you don’t get much mail. Qual-
comm’s Eudora Pro 4.0 offers serious e-mail
handling that can manage a virtual
onslaught with aplomb, though it still has a
ways to go in the ease-of-use department.
Version 4.0 adds some welcome new
features. For example, it doesn’t mind if you
have multiple e-mail addresses — you can
check for mail at all your addresses in one
step — and you can send and receive e-mail
in the background. You can also apply
simple HTML text formatting to your mes-
sages, although recipients who aren’t run-
ning an HTML-compatible mail program
will see nasty-looking HTML code.
Eudora Pro supports LDAP, an in-
creasingly popular protocol for online
white pages, and ACAP, a new protocol
that lets system administrators configure
Eudora automatically from a server. Miss-
ing from this version is support for LMAP,
Storage Wizard 2.0
ORGANIZES YOUR HARD DRIVE
HERE ARE FEW SURE THINGS
in life: death, ta.xes, Mac OS updates,
and diminishing hard-disk space.
FWT Software’s Storage Wizard 2.0
extends the useful life of hard disks
by compressing files, migrating lesser-used
documents to alternate media, and creating
intelligent archives that can be accessed in
seconds. Even if you’re not pressed for disk
space, Storage Wizard’s mirroring facility
provides automatic backups and creates free
space that can be used for virtual memorv^
A renamed upgrade from FWT3’s award-
winning HSM Toolkit, this enhanced ver-
sion sports a friendlier interface, allows
monitoring of more than one disk volume,
and can be configured using a new Rule
Wizard. You can, for example, specify that
whenever your hard disk becomes 90 per-
cent full, all files that haven’t been accessed
in six months should be compressed in
place; transferred to a holding folder; or
moved to storage, such as a networked hard
disk, a removable-media driv^e, or virtually
any other storage device except tape drives.
Files can be relocated to an easily searched
archive, with or without an alias left behind
Easy Access, Flashy Text Eudora Pro’s new tabbed
windows make it easy to switch between mailbox-
es, signatures, and other frequently used areas. Note
the HTML-styled text in the open message.
a newer standard for retrieving e-mail.
You can now create filters that route
messages to a particular mailbox, but
Eudora’s filter capabiliw takes a backseat
to Claris Emailer’s. For example, let’s say
that you want messages from people you
know to show up at the top of your in-box,
highlighted in red. In Emailer, it takes one
step to set up this filter; Eudora Pro
requires a separate filter for each person.
Emailer’s address book is also superior,
easily handling a recipient’s multiple
e-mail addresses. WTiile you can put mul-
tiple e-mail addresses for one recipient in
Eudora’s address book, all those addresses
Ruling the Roost Storage Wizard can set up rules
automatically, or you can enter default preferences.
in their original folder. Files and applica-
tions that will never be used again can be
directed to the Trash.
Other parameters let you specify how
crowded a hard disk should get, whether to
move files that haven’t been backed up, and
which files should be automatically
archived. You can choose which folders
Storage Wizard should manage, and mark
the ones it should ignore. The program can
automatically mirror modified files on a sec-
ond storage device and flag changed or
mov^ed files with Finder labels and colors.
In informal tests, Storage Wizard found
many megabytes of wasted space on a 6GB
hard disk with 3 GB of free space. Using a
few simple rules, the utility ferreted out
appear when you create a message.
Qualcomm has rearranged Eudora’s
interface to make it easier to use, and you
can combine several previously separate
window^s into one tabbed window. It’s also
easier to manage signatures and e-mail sta-
tionety. But initial setup could be easier, and
the Settings dialog box is still a nightmare
of bewildering preferences.
Macworld's Buying Advice Eudora
Pro has improved to the point that it’s rough-
ly equivalent to the current version of Claris
Emailer, although Emailer has the edge in
ease of use. If you’re familiar with earlier v^er-
sions of Eudora, you’ll have no problem get-
ting up to speed with version 4.0; unfortu-
nately, there’s no discounted upgrade price.
If you’re not already on the Eudora band-
wagon, download tlie demo versions of both
Eudora Pro and Claris Emailer and see
which one you prefer.— tom necrino
RATING: fMVa PROS: Improved Interface;
good support for checking multiple e-mail
accounts; supports several new Internet proto-
cols. CONS: Setup needs better help facilities; mail
filters lack flexibility; poor handling of multiple
addresses for one recipient. COMPANY: Qual-
comm (619/658-1291, www.eudora.com). COM-
PANY'S ESTIMATED PRICE: S39.
candidates for deletion or removal to off-
line storage and then constantly monitored
the disk in the background.
As with its predecessor, Storage Wiz-
ard’s extension tracks when an application
or data file is used, and it can be taught to
ignore accesses by Symantec Norton Disk
Doctor, Aladdin Stuffit Expander, or any
other program. A database determines
which files have been idle long enough for
action and which previously migrated files
should be promoted to active status on your
hard disk. You can also select and migrate
files manually when you finish a project.
Macworld's Buying Advice Storage
Wizard 2.0 offers more-flexible archiving
and security tlian conventional backup pro-
grams, and it continues to liberate disk space
with its rule-based evaluation of which files
you really do need on your drive. Once
you’ve put Storage Wizard to work, it keeps
monitoring your disks in the background to
keep them clean, lean, and uncluttered.
—DAVID D. BUSCH
RATING: PROS: Smooth background
operation; seamless file tracking and compression.
CONS: No tape-drive support. COMPANY: FWB
Software (650/482-4800, www.fwb.com). LIST
PRICE: S79.
40 June 1 998 MACWORLD
Reuleius
PageStream 3.3
FLAWED PACE-LAYOUT PROGRAM
T he latest in a series of
page-layout packages to take on mar-
ket leaders QuarkXPress and Adobe
PageMaker, SoftLogik’s PageStream
was originally developed for the
Commodore Amiga. SoftLogik boldly pro-
claims PageStream 3.3 to be the best desk-
top publishing program on any platform;
indeed, in a feature-by-feanire comparison,
it does appear to hold its own with its bet-
ter-known competitors. But a long feature
list does not necessarily make for a useful
product, and PageStream has some glaring
weaknesses — most notably a flawed undo
function and an inability to import Micro-
soft Word files directly — that most publish-
ing pros will find unacceptable.
PageStream ’s approach to page layout
borrows from that of both QuarkXPress
and PagexVIaker. PageStream uses text boxes
in a manner reminiscent of QuarkXPress,
and it includes such XPress niceties as Bezi-
er drawing tools and character style sheets.
But it also puts each page or spread on a
PageMaker-styde pasteboard and mimics
PageMaker’s approach to placing graphics:
instead of drawing a picture box and then
The Sincerest Form of Flattery PageStream's inter-
face borrows heavily from that of its competitors.
importing the image, you just select the file
and click where you want it to go.
PageStream offers impressive typo-
graphic functions, including kerning and
ligature controls and the ability to track ty|3e
in increments as small as 0.01 percent.
Drawing features are also strong: you can
create unusual shapes for use as image masks
or text boxes and convert text to paths. All
objects can be grouped, rotated, resized, and
assigned stroke-and-fill characteristics.
These features could make for a pow-
erful desktop publishing contender, but
SoftLogik has overlooked some fundamen-
tal needs of Mac-based publishing profes-
sionals. Betraying its origins, the software
can import files in the Amiga text format
but not in Word, Claris MacWrite, or any
other Mac-specific format other than Corel
WordPerfect. SoftLogik says it’s working
on a Word import filter.
PageStream’s user interface is down-
right sloppy. For example, if you have two
linked text blocks and make one smaller, the
text doesn’t automatically flow; it disappears
until you enlarge the second box. And while
the program theoretically allows multiple
undos, many operations can’t be undone at
all. This makes the Undo command some-
what unpredictable: if you add text, draw a
circle, and then choose Undo, the text is
removed and the circle remains.
AAacworld's Buying Advice Despite
the version number, this is the first full
PageStream release for the Macintosh, and
it feels like a work in progress. If SoftLogik
fixes the program’s many flaws, it may offer
a viable alternative to PageiVIaker — and per-
haps even QuarkXPress. In its current incar-
nation, however, PageStream falls far short
of the competition.— STEPHEN beale
RATING: f V2 PROS: Strong typographic and
drawing tools. CONS: Poor word-processor sup-
port; flawed Undo command; sloppy user Inter-
face. COArtPANT: SoftLogik (314/305-7878,
www.softlogik.com). LIST PRICE: S595 (Intro-
ductory price of Si 99 available indefinitely).
World Wide Web Weaver 3.0
USER-FRIENDLY HTML EDITOR HAS SOME ROUGH EDGES
F or a developer, updating
software is like rock climbing: if you
don’t test a new handhold before you
commit your weight to it, you may
be in for a long fall. In some ways.
Miracle Software succeeds with World
Wide Web Weaver 3.0, combining the
power and flexibility of text-based Web-
page editors with the ease of use of \WSI-
WHl'^G editors. Unfortunately, some of Web
Weaver’s new features tend to crumble
beneath your fingertips.
Web Weaver is built for Web-page cre-
ators who already have a thorough grasp of
HTML and Web concepts. For example,
the default start-up document is a blank
page with preformatted <html>, <head>,
and <body> tags. Underneath the gruff
exterior, though, lies some pretty^ helpful
software. Web Weaver can automatically
create just about any type of tag — just pull
down the Tags menu or click on a button in
the tool bar, and fill in the resulting dialog
box. Web Weaver keeps your document
easy to read by highlighting tags in a vari-
ety of colors and formatting your text when
you apply style tags. If you’re coding
Click but Don't Drag Web Weaver's frame editor
helps you visualize the browser window, but resiz-
ing the frames by dragging the edges will make a
horrible mess.
H'FML by hand, you can ask Web Weaver
to sweep your document, checking your
syntax and colorizing your tags.
Web Weaver sports semi- WYSIWYG
editors for frames, tables, and image maps,
among other complex tags, but it’s a toss-
up as to whether they’re a help or a hin-
drance. For instance, Web Weaver’s image-
map tag editor consists of two cross-linked
modal dialog boxes packed with cool but
wobbly tools that leave you wondering if
the software is working properly: text that
should appear automatically sometimes
doesn’t, and clicking on an image map to
make it active occasionally won’t. And the
WYSIMWG table editor, while well con-
ceived, is marred by clunky performance
and screen-redraw problems. Possibly the
worst offender, though, is the frames edi-
tor, whose centerpiece is a graphic repre-
sentation of what the browser .screen will
look like after you subdivide it (see “Click
but Don’t Drag”). The interface invites you
to resize the frames by dragging their bor-
ders. But monkeying with the frames graph-
ic will freeze up the tag editor, and you’ll
have to cancel out and tty again.
AAacworlcTs Buying Advice Web
Weaver’s shortcomings are a shame, because
the software is both inviting and education-
al. xMiracle Software says it’s working on ver-
sion 3.0.1, which should fix a nasty drag-
and-drop bug and otherwise polish up the
package. My advice is to wait for the
update — and make sure your safety harness
is firmly attached.— cameron crotty
RATING: Vj PROS: Text-based editor intu-
itive, easy to use. CONS: Advanced tools aren't
reliable. COMPANY: Miracle Software (3 15/265-
0930, www.miraclelnc.com). LIST PRICE: S89.
www.macworld.com June 1998 49
Reuieus
LightningDraw/Web
VECTOR-BASED WEB GRAPHICS
W HEN APPLE KILLED OFF
QuickDraw GX, it looked like
curtains for an amazing GX-
based illustration program called
LightningDraw, from Lari Soft-
ware. But since Apple rolled QuickDraw
GX’s power into QuickTime 3.0, Lari is
suddenly in the catbird seat: its Lightning-
DrawAVeb 1.1.1 is the only tool to support
QuickTime’s new vector-graphics features,
letting you create comple.x illustrations and
save them as tiny QuickTime files.
As its name implies, Lightning-
DrawA^^eb is targeted at Web developers.
Lari wants you to replace the GIF images
on your Web page with vector-based
images, which are generally much smaller
than even compressed bitmaps. But despite
using QuickTime for saving files, Light-
ningDrawAVeb doesn’t create animations;
QuickTime is merely the container for the
resulting single-frame illustrations. Since
competing vector-based tools, such as
Macromedia’s Flash 2.0 (see Reviews^ Sep-
tember 1997), offer animation and user-
interaction effects, this is a major failing.
Other drawbacks: the QuickTime vector
DenebaCAD 1.5
ARCHITECTURAL CAD PROGRAM EXCELS
D ENEBACAD HAS GROW^^ UP FAST.
AA'Tien we looked at version 1.0.2, we
gave it high marks for its impressive
rendering features but noted that it
had the unfinished feel of a beta ver-
sion {Reviews^ March 1998). Version 1.5,
released a mere three months later, not only
sets a speed record for improvement; it’s also
easier to use and produces stunning, photo-
realistic architectural renderings at speeds
that will simply dazzle clients viewing a
walk-through.
Li a world where AutoDesk’s AutoCAD
is the standard, the most important addi-
tions to DenebaCAD 1 .5 are new drawing
features, scalable arrows and text, and
upgraded dimensioning tools; they let the
program import and export AutoCAD DXF
and DWG files with no translation glitch-
es in objects or descriptive text. Deneba-
CAD’s file exchange with AutoCAD is now
better than that of programs costing thou-
sands more.
DenebaCAD 1.0 supported multiple
open windows with different views of the
same project, but the new version’s perfor-
mance improvements make it practical to
See-through Hues LightningDraw/Web's power-
ful transparency options let you quickly create effects
that would be difficult in other illustration programs.
track doesn’t support bitmapped objects;
you can’t link different parts of a drawing
to different URLs; only linear gradients are
supported; and you can’t print your images.
But as far as drawing goes, the user
interface is nearly perfect, offering a smart
combination of well-designed palettes and
logical menus. The Reshaper tool lets you
grab and move any point on a line, cur\'ing
the rest of the line to follow; the Cut tool
lets you carve out interior portions of a
polygon. You can make objects transparent,
affecting the color of objects underneath.
Text handling is superb, especially with GX-
sa\wy fonts. The InConcert feature is par-
ticularly dazzling, allowing you to add or
subtract shapes to create complex polygons.
Welcome Want to see how this room looks from
the sofas in the corner? DenebaCAD 1 .5 can redraw
the scene almost instantaneously.
demo — on a laptop and in real time — a
2-D plan in one window, a 3-D wire-frame
plan in another, a 3-D solid view in a third,
and an amazing video-like view in the
fourth. The latter offers fast ray tracing to
display lighting shifts, great handling of
reflection and transparency, and the most
realistic assortment of surface textures you’ll
find for less than $1,000.
Most of the problems in the first
release — uneven librar)' content, repetitive
error messages, sluggish performance on
some operations, and the general Canvas-
with-CAD-tacked-on feeling — have all
been fixed, and in record time for a program
this complex. The included libraries still
offer much more support for designing
And LightningDrawAVeb imports GIFs,
PICTs, and Illustrator files, although it
drops text during import.
To create a vector graphic for use on the
Web, you select the Export as QuickTime
option and specify settings for compression
and display quality. (In your HTML file,
you add an <embed> tag where you want
the image to appear.) LightningDrawAVeb
can also export images as GIF89a, I PEG,
and GX PICT files.
Macworld's Buying Advice Light-
ningDrawAVeb is a powerful program that
offers unique support for QuickTime 3.0’s
vector-graphics track. But despite Quick-
Time’s possibilities, Web designers probably
won’t rush to abandon GIFs. Either way, the
program’s viewing audience will be minimal
until QuickTime 3.0 is generally available.
And until LightningDraw/Web supports
vector animations, it’ll be no match for
Flash.— ROB TERRELL
RATING: PROS: Only product to support
QuickTime vector graphics; excellent user interface
and illustration tools. CONS: Can’t produce ani-
mations; can’t link different parts of an illustration
to different URLs; QuickTime 3.0 not yet widely
adopted. COMPANY: Lari Software (919/968-
0701.www.larisoftware.com). LIST PRICE: $99.
homes and offices than for designing
machine parts; Deneba is obviously push-
ing the product to e.xcel in one area rather
than delivering a lumbering behemoth that
does everything.
Wth no support for macros or script-
ing, DenebaCAD still lacks BASIC-level
programmability. Again, that may be a
drawback for mechanical engineers, but for
architects — DenebaCAD’s target audi-
ence — it’s only a minor concern. If you’re
designing components for plastic injection
molding, tty Diehl Graphsoft’s MiniCAD;
if you’re designing an office-building atri-
um, on the other hand, get DenebaCAD.
Macworld's Buying Advice With
DenebaCAD 1.5, Deneba has not only
repaired the glitches in the previous release
but also added worthwhile new features
users have requested — all without raising
die price. This version moves DenebaCAD
to the front rank of architectural-CAD pro-
grams for the Mac.— CHARLES seiter
RATING: MM PROS: Full-featured rendering
at top speed; well-designed interoperability of
2-D- and 3-D-CAD functions. CONS: Modest
engineering libraries; lacks programmability.
COMPANY: Deneba Software (305/596-5644,
www.deneba.com). LIST PRICE: $799.95.
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M acintosh tcp/ip can be a
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connection. If you already have TCP/IP
configured on your Mac, GearBox collects
all your current settings — including appli-
cation preferences for Netscape Navigator
and Communicator, Microsoft Internet
E.xplorer, Qualcomm’s Eudora, News-
watcher, NCSA Telnet, and IRCle Internet
Relay Chat. GearBox also sets the Internet
Config control-panel values, which are used
by many other Internet applications; you
Location, Location, Location GearBox 1.5 stores
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and application preferences with a single click.
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based on packet latency.
GearBox’s Workspace feature can
maintain separate Web-browser book-
marks, e-mail address books, and e-mail
mailboxes for each configuration set — per-
fect for managing Internet settings on a
computer shared by two or more people. All
users simply click on their own configura-
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unique Internet identity.
GearBox has a few minor rough edges.
The Eas}^ Setup wizard imports only your
current TCP/IP settings; if you have other
TCP/IP or PPP configurations saved as
sets, you have to re-create them manually
within GearBox. And GearBox doesn’t store
geographic or time-zone information, so
when you switch locations, you have to
manually update your Map control panel
and clock to reflect your new position and
time zone.
AAacworld's Buying Advice If your
Mac is mobile, has multiple Internet con-
nections, or is used by several people, Gear-
Box 1.5 is useful for alleviating lengthy
reconfiguration efforts and transforming
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RATING: PROS: Elegant setup wizard for
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sets; useful monitoring and diagnostic aids.
CONS: Doesn’t Import all existing TCP/IP config-
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Unfortunately, version 1.02 feels more like
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with glitches that affect both appearance
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SpeedShare windows or to and from a Find-
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SpeedShare offers access control based
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The Eternal City No matter which race — even sub-
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species. Ships themselves resemble 2-D card-
board cutouts and move with similar grace.
Pax Imperia’s novelty lies in real-time
play, but this innovation proves to be a
strong limiting factor. For example, instead
of selecting buildings to be constructed, you
set (or modify, with great inconvenience)
priorities for the types of buildings impor-
tant to your goals. As a result, players spend
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ing for action.
But tedious game play isn’t the worst
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The game’s poorly written manual
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Many a mediocre game gains new life
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There’s no way to save a network game, no
way to alter the speed, and — once you’ve
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stopping it, unless you crash.
/Wacworld's Buying Advice Ill-con-
ceived and poorly implemented. Pax Impe-
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of nothing more than an vmfinished product.
Players new to strategy games may be for-
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RATING: ff PROS: Simple interface. CONS:
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network play. COMPANY: THQ (818/225-5167,
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ing. At first you
Then an even more
you: Maybe the IS
in the dark of night,
Windows 7nachines!
arriving. They pull
puters from their
on their desks, and
speed, accessibility, a no-compromise set of features, and
surprisingly low prices. Which pretty much covers w hat
you'd want from any machine — even a desktop computer.
Better yet, Apple’s inclusion of the new^ Pow'erBook
G3 systems in its online build-to-order program means
customers soon wdll have a vasdy e.\panded set of config-
uration options for Mac portables. Whether you’re a cash-
challenged consumer or a money-is-no-object executive,
you’ll be able to customize a mobile Mac that has the fea-
tures you need, at a price that won’t break the bank.
WELCOME TO AREA 51
This is probably the best-looldng Pow'crBook line Apple’s
ever shipped. After a string of portable-computer designs
that were perhaps best described as utilitarian, Apple has at
last returned to the strong industrial-design values that made
the early generations of Mac portables so distinctive: the
plastics are dark gray — practically black — and use a variety
of textures and surface reflecti\nty to give the new design an
almost otherworldly look. Curves are in evidence ever)'^-
where. In short, it’s a pleasure to behold, altliough perhaps
a little more X-Files than executive-suite. About the only
questionable design choice is the huge white Apple logo
BY HENRY BORTMAN
inlaid on the top cover. Apple refers to this as a “crystal”
logo; other, more savory adjectives could also be applied.
You’ll also notice that the new design’s physical dimen-
sions are dramatically different from those of previous
PowerBooks. The PowerBook G3 is huge: nearly an inch
deeper (from front to back) and almost an inch and a quar-
ter wider than the 3400. This may cause problems if you
travel in coach. On the plus side, it’s only 2 inches thick
when closed, so it’s easy to grasp ^\^th one hand and tuck
under your arm. The weight is the same as the 3400’s:
7.7 pounds with battery and CD-ROM drive installed.
But enough on appearance. If you’re thinking of buy-
ing a PowerBook G3, you’re probably more interested in
getting your work done. You want to know what’s inside.
And what it’s going to cost you.
THE TRUTH IS IN THERE
Although based on a single logic board and industrial
design, the new^ PowerBook G3 replaces the entire current
line of PowerBooks, with the notable exception of the 2400
subnotebook The 1400, the 3400, and the original Pow-
erBook G3 will all fade into memory. (In case you’re con-
fused about the relationship between the original Power-
Book G3 and this model, there is none; they’re completely
different beasts. Apple’s moniker-meisters just wanted to see
if you were paying attention.)
Starting at $2,299 for a low-end configuration, you can
trade off features to get that new G3 PowerBook to fit
almost any budget or pack it with options until it busts your
bottom line. It’s your call. Here’s a look at the options.
Processor You can choose a 233MHz, 250MHz, or
292MHz G3 processor, which comes on a daughtercard.
Apple’s not saying officially that it’s upgradable (the com-
pany wants to avoid unnecessary entanglements with the
FTC), but it is.
The 233MHz processor will have a system bus clocked
at 66MHz and will lack an L2 cache, so performance is
somewhat compromised (see the benchmark, “Pow-erBook
Performance Catching Up”). The 2 50MHz and 292AIHz
processors have system-bus speeds of 83MHz, meaning that
PowerBooks using these CPUs have the fastest system buses
available on any Mac. Both the latter processors come with
a 1MB backside cache, with a 2:1 cache-to-bus-speed ratio.
RAM You’ll be able to install a maximum of
192MHz of high-speed SDRAM in the PowerBook’s two
SO DIMiVI RAM slots, which reside on the processor
daughtercard. You can order a system w-ith 16MB, 32MB,
64MB, 128MB, or 192MB preinstalled. If you order 64AIB
or less, Apple will fill only the bottom RAAI slot, leaving
the top slot — the more easily accessible one — free for
future upgrades. SO DIMAI is a PC-industry-standard
RAM card design, so w-hen the time comes to upgrade,
finding RAM that fits shouldn’t be a problem.
Display Apple is offering some giant-size new
options here. You have a choice of three displays. The
12.1 -inch passive-matrix option comes with 2MB of
VRAM (not upgradable) and has a resolution of 800 by
iWillll PowerBook Performance Catching Up
LAB TEST
■■ Best overall performance. Longer bars and higher numbers are better. ► New system. Bold indicates the best result in a subsystem test. SpeedMark
scores are relative to that of a Power Macintosh 7100/80, which is assigned a score of 1.0. MacBench 4.0 scores are relative to that of a Power
Macintosh 6100/60, which is assigned a score of 100.
SPEEDMARK MACBENCH
The Newest G3 Notebooks . . .
► PowerBook G3/292 prototype
► PowerBook C3/250 prototype
PowerBook G3/250
► PowerBook G3/233 prototype -
PowerBook 3400C/240
PowerBook 1400c/166
I
4.4
3.9
3.5
2.9
1.9
1.1
Processor
Disk
Graphics
1,031
295
663
881
242
618
747
314
380
445
226
396
337
226
232
154
153
129
329
855 !
Power Macintosh 96(X)/3CX)
i 744
351
486 1
Bohind Our Tests Macworld's SpeedMark test suite
runs 54 real-world tasks In 15
cache. All displays were set to 16-bit color. The 292MHz and 250MHz
programs and the Finder to determine overall performance of a Mac,
MacBench 4.0 uses special test programs tuned to measure and isolate
the performance of the processor, disk, and graphics subsystems.
(Download your own free copy of MacBench 4.0 from
www.macbench.com.) The tested systems had 32MB of RAM. Mac OS
8.0 (Mac OS 8.1 for PowerPC 750-based systems), and a 512K disk
PowerBook prototypes have fixed 1,024-by-768-pixel displays, while
all other systems were tested with either 800-by-600*pixel or 832-by-
624-pixel displays. This difference in display type means that the
SpeedMark scores were lowered slightly on the 292MHz and 250MHz
PowerBooks, because scrolling tests take longer on a higher-resolution
display.— Macworld Lab testing supervised by Gil Loyola
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Unearthly Connections
ALL THE NEW POWERBOOK G3
models come with a full comple-
ment of standard Macintosh
ports, plus some surprise extras
such as an S-Video~out port, for
connecting to camcorders or tele-
visions. And for those occasions
when you're leaning over the
front of the PowerBook with a
cable in hand, trying to tell your
serial port from your ADB port.
D E F G H
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ajit
J
the port labels are duplicated on A
the inside of the back cover. B
The PowerBook G3 also marks C
the arrival of full-speed, IrDA- D
standard-compliant infrared E
networking on PowerBooks. F
Finally, PowerBook infrared will G
deliver usable— some might even H
say snappy— 4MBps connections
for quick and easy point-to- I
point networking. J
Stereo sound in
Stereo sound out
AC power
ADB
Serial (LocalTalk)
lOBaseT Ethernet
SCSI (HDI-30 connector)
S-Video out (comes on 13.3-
and 14.1 -inch configurations)
VGA video out
IrDA (4MBps infrared)
ft'
600 pixels (SVGA). Like previous PowerBook displays,
it can support up to thousands of colors internally or mil-
lions on an external monitor.
Although the passive-matrix screen will no doubt
appeal to the severely budget-constrained, many Power-
Book buyers will probably want to break open their piggy
banks to pop for the big, vibrant 13.3- and 1 4. 1 -inch active-
matrix displays. The two larger screens come with 4MB of
VRAAI and have resolutions of 1,024 by 768 pixels (XGA).
They support — take note, this is a first — millions of colors
on external as well as internal displays. All the new G3
portables come vith a built-in VGA connector, for hook-
ing up an external monitor; systems containing 13.3- or
14.1 -inch displays also come with an S-Video-out port,
which can be used for output to a television, camcorder, or
VCR. The built-in graphics controller is based on tlie ATI
3D RAGE LT chip, which provides both 2-D and 3-D
acceleration.
Storage A 2 Ox CD-ROM drive is standard equip-
ment — unless you want to fork over a few hundred bucks
extra for a DVD-ROM drive instead. On the hard-disk
front, you can select a 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB EIDE drive.
Curiously, a floppy-disk drive is optional, but you’d be ill-
advised to leave it out. And as for a removable Zip drive,
Apple won’t offer one, although it’s a good bet VST Tech-
nologies (978/635-8200, www.vsttech.com) will.
Batteries All PowerBook G3 notebooks come with
one lithium-ion battery, which Apple claims is good for up
to 3.5 hours of normal use, although our preliminary tests
indicate that this may be a bit optimistic. Just in case, you
might want to pick up a second power pack. The new mobile
Macs have two removable-storage bays, one on each side of
the unit. The left bay can hold a battery or any 3.5-inch
device. The right bay can also hold a battery or any 3.5- or
5.25-inch device. So for those long flights, you can stash the
storage devices in your luggage and pop in a pair of batter-
ies to double your running time.
Communications All PowerBook G3 machines
have — finally! — built-in lOBaseT Ethernet. A 56-Kbps
modem is optional and fits in a special internal slot. You
can add other high-speed network adapters by using the
PC Card slots, which are finally CardBus-compliant.
(CardBus is a faster version of the PC Card standard.)
What's Missing There are a couple of items Apple
won’t offer as options but should have. First is the ability to
include an external mouse, keyboard, and monitor in a Pow-
erBook G3 configuration. Sure, you can order them sepa-
rately, but Apple should have made these add-ons part of
the standard list of options.
Second is bundled software. This was one advantage
Mac clone makers offered — and that PC vendors still do.
In particular, it’s nuts not to let customers order a system
with Virtual PC preinstalled. Apple’s excuse: it didn’t know
if customers would want DOS, Windows 95, or NT. But
isn’t letting buyers decide for themselves the whole point
of a build-to-order program?
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A 12.1-, 13. 3-, or 14.1 -inch display.
Passive-matrix display (12.1
inches) provides 800-by-600-
pixel resolution at up to 16 bits
per pixel. Active-matrix displays
(13.3 or 14.1 inches) provide
l,024-by-768-pixel resolution at
up to 24 bits per pixel.
B Stereo speakers. Note that the
subwoofer hump made infamous
by the 3400 is gone.
C Speaker mute button. Nice touch.
D PC Card bay. Supports two Type
11 cards or one Type III card;
CardBus-compliant, so you can
add a second graphics-display
adapter, a digital-video-capture
card, or an ISDN adapter.
E Software-controlled PC Card
eject buttons.
F Optional preinstalled 56-Kbps
modem card.
G Modem port (on the side, not
visible).
H Hot-swappable 3.5-inch expan-
sion bay. Supports battery or
floppy drive, 3.5-inch hard drive,
or Zip drive. Comes with 49-whr
lithium-ion battery, shown here.
I Hot-swappable 5.25-inch expan
sion bay. Supports battery, 3.5-
inch devices, CD-ROM drive,
DVD-ROM drive, or PCI expan-
sion adapter. Comes with 20X
CD-ROM (shown here) or DVD-
ROM drive.
J PowerPC G3 processor, running
at 233MHz, 250MHz, or
292MHz.
K 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB EIDE hard
drive.
L Secondary SO DIMM RAM-
expansion slot. Primary RAM-
exponsion slot, which contains
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preinstalled SDRAM card, is on
the underside of the processor
daughtercard.
M Upgradable processor
daughtercard.
N Power on/shutdown key. Note
that it's up off the keyboard
instead of perilously close to
the delete key. Perhaps some-
one's listening after all.
O Brightness control.
P Eject levers for expansion-bay
devices.
Q Volume control
WITH BUILT-IN ETHERNET ON ALL MODELS AND AN OPTION-
al 292MHz processor, built-in modem, up to 192MB of
RAM, and an 8GB hard drive, the configuration options
for the new PowerBook G3 notebooks are so flexible
that you may never need to get inside one. But you can't
always predict what your computing needs will be one or
two years down the line, or what new upgrade options
might be available. And you can't always afford the sys-
tem you wish you could buy today.
So the day may come when you want to upgrade
your processor, add more RAM, or Increase your hard-
drive capacity. Apple has traditionally been reluctant to
make upgrading a PowerBook (with the notable excep-
tion of the 1400) an easy task. So you'll be happy to
learn that the insides of the new G3 portables are more
accessible than those of any other PowerBooks the com-
pany has ever built.
REACHING INSIDE
Getting at a G3's guts, a three-step process, is a snap. (1) A
slight tug on the flip-out levers on the front of the unit
ejects whatever devices you have in the expansion bays.
(2) Reaching inside the expansion bays and sliding back
a pair of spring-loaded tabs releases the keyboard, which
you can then lift out. (3) Removing two Phillips-head
screws releases the heat sink, which easily lifts out — It
even has a convenient handle.
Once the heat sink is out of the way, you have access
to the processor daughtercard and to the hard drive. The
daughtercard is removable and upgradable — at least in
theory: Apple's not promising any future upgrades, but
third parties will likely provide some as faster processors
become available. The daughtercard contains two RAM
slots, one of which can be accessed without removal of
the card Itself. The hard drive is held in place by a single
flat-head screw. Even the built-in modem-card slot is
accessible, although Apple hadn’t decided as of press time
if it will offer the 56-Kbps modem separately.
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ALIEN INFLUENCES
Beyond the basics, Apple has thrown in some elegant
touches that make tliese notebooks a pleasure to use.
Keyboard For the first time, PowerBooks have full
105-key capability. No, the keyboard isn’t really that big.
But a new “function” key (labeled “fh”) in the lower left
comer of the keyboard lets you access an alternative set
of functions for many of the keys (see the sidebar “More
than Meets the Eye”).
Easy Access The PowerBook G3 offers the easi-
est internal access of any PowerBook ever shipped (see
the sidebar “Alien Autopsy”). Around back, Apple has
duplicated the port labels on the inside of the protective
cover, so when you’re leaning over the PowerBook from
the front, you can see what’s what. Plus, Apple promises
that this time the port cover ideally won’t snap off.
Ergonomics The new keyboard has a very soft
touch, and it’s quiet. But the placement of the touchpad
and “mouse” button leave a bit to be desired. It’s a huge
stretch to get to them from the keyboard. Another nag-
ging detail: you may not like the feel of the handrest;
there’s a slight lip around its edge that can be a bit
annoying as your palms slide over it.
FASTER THAN LIGHT
Let’s just put it right out there: Apple’s new portables are
screamers. To compare the new PowerBooks with pre-
\ious Mac notebooks and with desktop Macs, Macworld
Lab ran both SpeedMark 1.0, an application-based test
that measures overall system performance, and Mac-
Bench 4.0, a subsystem-level test that isolates the perfor-
mance of the processor, disk, and graphics subsystems.
What we found was litde short of amazing.
At the high end, the new G3 PowerBook outfitted
with a 292MHz processor was 26 percent faster on the
SpeedMark test than the old top-of-the-line 250AIHz G3
PowerBook. Even the new 250MHz Pow^erBook G3
show^ed an improvement over its predecessor: an 1 1 per-
cent SpeedMark gain.
Even more astonishing, though, were the gains in
the midrange and at the low end of die PowerBook line.
The new 250MHz PowerBook G3 was ovei^ twice as fast
on our SpeedMark test as the previous midrange model,
the Pow'erBook 3400c/240. The low end saw a still more
impressive gain: the new Pow'erBook G3 with a 233AIHz
processor was over two and a half times as fast on the
SpeedMark test as Apple’s pre\dous low^-end PowerBook,
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
THE NEW POWERBOOK G3 NOTE- users access to special functions for The keys outlined in , in
books offer— finally!-the full func- many of the G3 keyboard's keys. conjunction with the fn key, can be
tionality of a 1 05-key extended key- The F5 and F7 through F 1 1 keys used as a numeric keypad,
board, complete with an invert- (outlined in ) double as num And the directional-arrow keys
ed-T set of arrow keys. lock, insert, forward delete, scroll (outlined in i i ) also provide the
The new fn, or function, key lock, print screen, and pause, page up, page down, home, and
(lower left, outlined in yellow) gives respectively. end functions.
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WHEN NOTEBOOKS COLLIDE:
PowerBooks versus pc Portables
APPLE'S WEB SITE FOR BUILD-TO-ORDER POWERBOOK
G3's, store.applexom, will present several standard
configurations you can customize to suit your needs —
and your budget. Macworld has created three custom
configurations that fit the requirements of a broad
range of users. For comparison, we've priced similar-
ly configured Pentium-based Solo notebooks from
Gateway 20CX).
Our least-expensive PC setup is similar to
Apple's $2,299 baseline G3 configuration. In Its zeal
to approach the $2,000 mark, however, Apple chose
not to endow its bottom-line setup with a floppy-disk
drive, a move we consider ill advised. So our low-end
configuration includes one.
Our second G3 configuration is outfitted for
users who shuttle work between office and home or
who are often on the road visiting clients. It is a no-
compromise, fully equipped model whose speed and
power rival those of many desktop systems.
On the high end, we've configured a PowerBook
G3 for graphics professionals who need a top-per-
formlng system but who don't like to be tied down to
the studio. Accordingly, we've added an external
mouse, a keyboard, and a 17-Inch monitor. This con-
figuration will also work well for CEOs who want to
make an impression both In the executive suite and in
the flrst-dass cabin.
PowerBook 03 (entiy-ievei configuration) Gateway Solo 2300 SE
Processor
233MHz C3
266MHz Pentium with MMX
RAM
16MB
16MB
Display
12,1 -inch SVGA passive-matrix with 2MB VRAM
12.1-inch SVGA passive-matrix with 2MB VRAM
Hard drive
2GB EIDE
2GB Ultra ATA
Ethernet
lOBaseT built in
lOBaseT added via PC Card
Operating system
Mac os 8.1
Windows 95
Other
indudes built-in SCSI port. 16-bit stereo sound in/out.
built-in stereo speakers
indudes built-in USB port
Total cost
$2,379 (indudes $80 for floppy-disk drive)*
$2,399
PowerBook G3 (midrange configuration)
Gateway Solo 2300 XL
Processor
250MHz G3 with 1MB backside cache
266MHz Pentium with MAAX
RAM
32MB
32MB
Display
13.3 -Inch XGA active-matrix with 4MB VRAM
13.3-inch XGA active-matrix with 2MB VRAM
Hard drive
4GB EIDE
4GB UltraATA
Ethernet
lOBaseT built in
lOBaseT added via PC Card
AAodem
56-Kbps internal modem
56-Kbps modem added via PC Card
Operating system
Mac OS 8.1
Windows 95
Other
indudes built-in SCSI port 16-bit stereo sound in/out,
built-in stereo speakers
indudes built-in USB port, external speakers,
MS (Dffice SBE
Total cost
$3,899*
$3,379
PowerBook G3 (high-end configuration)
Gateway Solo 9100 XL
Processor
292MHz G3 with 1MB backside cache
266MHz Pentium II
RAM
64MB
64MB
Display
14.1 -inch XGA active-matrix with 4MB VRAM
14.1 -Inch XGA active-matrix with 4MB VRAM
Hard drive
8GB EIDE
8GB Ultra ATA
Ethernet
lOBaseT built in
on combo PC Card
Modem
56-Kbps internal modem
on combo PC Card
External 17-inch monitor
Apple Multiple Scan 720 Display ($649* *)
Vhritron 700
Keyboard and mouse
Apple extended keyboard and mouse ($148* *)
Microsoft Natural keyboard, PS/2 mouse
Operating system
Mac OS 8.1
Windows NT Workstation 4.0
Other
indudes built-in SCSI port, 16-blt stereo sound In/out,
built-in stereo speakers
indudes built-in USB port, external speakers,
MS Office SBE. MS Bookshelf
Total cost
$6,396*
$5,648
All system configurations include a 1.44MB floppy-disk drive and a 20 k CD-ROM drive. * Based on preliminary Apple pricing. * • Prices from Apple Store.
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the 1400c/166. All in all, it’s probably the most remark-
able speed boost in the history of the PowerBook line.
Obviously, with speed gains such as these, Power-
Books have come a long way toward catching up with
desktop Macs. But not all the way. On the SpeedMark
test, the 292MHz PowerBook G3 we tested was 17 per-
cent slower than Apple’s new 300MHz Power Macintosh
G3 desktop system, the 250MHz G3 PowerBook was
14 percent slower than a 266MHz PowerMac G3, and the
new 233MHz G3 portable was 28 percent slower than
the 233MHz G3 desktop.
These discrepancies appear to be a result of the weak-
er disk and graphics performance typical of portable sys-
tems. Also bear in mind that the preproduction units we
tested hadn’t yet been optimized for performance. Apple
may be able.to get the new PowerBook G3 systems running
even closer to desktop speeds by the time they ship.
WHAT PRICE POWER(BOOK)?
Eventually it comes down to the bottom line: What’s it
gonna cost you? That, of course, depends on how you
decide you want your PowerBook set up. More than a
thousand different configurations will be available on
Apple’s build-to-order Web site. Prices will start at
S2,299 and max out at well over $6,000.
The PowerBook G3 is deeper and wider than previous models,
but is only 2 inches thick when closed.
We’ve chosen three configurations to present in the
sidebar “When Notebooks Collide: PowerBooks versus
PC Portables.” For comparison with PCs — after all,
they’re what everyone compares PowerBooks with — we
priced similarly configured Gateway Solo PCs. Wliat we
found varied, depending on where on the price spectrum
we were looking.
At the low end, we were able to find budget PC note-
books from companies such as Micron for as little as
$1,399. Apple has nothing to compare with these bargain-
basement machines. But of course, the PCs you can buy
at these prices are yesterday’s systems.
In the $2,000 range, a PowerBook G3 and a Gateway
Solo 2300 SE configured similarly cost almost exactly the
same. A little higher up the ladder, in the $3,500-to-
$4,000 range, a Gateway Solo 2300 XL could be had for
around $500 less than a similarly configured PowerBook
G3. And at the high end, we found that you can save
upwards of $700 by buying a fully tricked-out PC note-
book rather than a PowerBook G3.
But — and this is a big but — these comparisons con-
sider configuration and price only, not bang for the buck.
Although Macworld Lab has not yet tested the G3 Power-
Books against PC notebooks, in prior cross-platform
shootouts, G3 systems have generally outperformed Pen-
tium-based systems by a significant margin.
THE INVASION BEGINS
If you’re in the market for a new desktop Mac, you might
want to take a step back before you make your next pur-
chase. As we’ve shown, the new PowerBook G3 portables
are a damned good argument for choosing the mobile
alternative. Still, there are some things you’ll want to
consider before you make the switch.
• Notebooks are notoriously bad ergonomically. If the
keyboard’s at the right height for your hands, the screen’s
too low. If the screen’s at the right height for viewing, the
keyboard’s too high. If you’re going to use a PowerBook
as your main computer, you’ll want at least an external
keyboard and mouse.
• PowerBooks can’t be docked. Although some PC
vendors have done impressive work in this regard, Apple’s
never really handled the docking problem very well in its
all-in-one designs.
• If you’re doing color-critical work, you’ll want an
external monitor. You can’t accurately color-correct an
image on a notebook display wLose hues shift noticeably
every time you move your head. And even if color isn’t
that important to you, you still might want an external
monitor: although the 13.3- and I4.1-inch displays’
l,024-by-768-pixel resolution is positively huge for a
portable, the dots that make up images on these screens
are correspondingly smaller, making images harder to
read. And, if you need something with even greater reso-
lution, an external monitor is really your only choice.
THE LAST WORD
With its new PowerBook G3 line, Apple has a definite
winner. One might argue that these are the most exciting
systems Aj:>ple has brought to market in years.
So if you walk into work tomorrow and notice that
some Macs are missing, don’t assume it’s an alien or,
worse, a Wintel invasion. Instead, start plotting how to
convince your boss you should be next in line for a Power-
Book G3 conversion, m
HENRY BORTMAN. one of the leading authorities on Macintosh
computers and operating systems, is a Macworld contributing editor.
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DRIP. DRIP. DRIP. That’s the sound of the World Wide Web
trickling into your Mac. Even if you’ve got a relatively fast con-
nection, waiting for the Web can feel less like zooming through
the Information Age than like enduring Chinese water torture.
You can’t unjam the Internet, but you can make sure you
don’t lose another second on your end. We’ve assembled nine
great remedies for using the two most popular browsers —
Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator — to tame
the World Wide Wait. From setting up your browser the way
you like it to downloading frequendy read pages automatically,
we show you the best ways to turn yourself and your browser into
a lean, mean surfing machine.
BY CAMERON CROTTY
Built for Comfort
When you move into a new office, the first
thing you do is put up pictures and arrange
your file drawers the way you like them.
V\nien you buy a new computer, you fiddle
with the desktop pattern and arrange your
hard disk. Why should your Web brows-
er be any different? The first principle of
Better Browsing is: customize.
I Sweat the Small Stuff
You’d be amazed at how many
Web veterans never configure their
browsers and then waste lots of dme deal-
ing with the consequences. Take a minute
or so to set up your browser to suit the
way you surf, and you’ll expend less ener-
gy getting where you want to go.
If you’re really not interested in the
latest news from Micro.soft or Netscape,
for instance, why should that be the first
thing you see when you go online?
Instead, choose as your home page a site
you visit frequently. Actually, you don’t
need to load a page on start-up at all; con-
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sider launching your browser widi a blank
page, particularly if you have a slow con-
nection to the Web. If you like die idea of
having a start-up page but don’t want to
wait for it to download from the Net, con-
sider building a simple page of links and
keeping it on your hard disk, where your
hrow'ser can access it quickly.
Both Navigator and E.xplorer keep
their home-page settings under Prefer-
ences in the Edit menu. If you’re using
Navigator, the Navigator screen in Pref-
erences is where you enter a home-page
URL, choose to start widi a blank page, or
specify a local file. If you’re using Explor-
er, you’ll find these settings under Web
Browser: Home/Search in Preferences.
Keep Your Browser in Its Place
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer/
Outlook Express software combo and
Netscape’s Communicator let you do
I everything from browsing to download-
I ing files to reading newsgroups. Both
5 suites rely on Internet Config, a shared set
of Internet preferences, to let you use
your own Internet utilities — a process
called remapping. For example, you could
use Fetch or NetFinder for FTP file
downloads rather than the FIT utility
built into each suite.
Internet Explorer 4.0 shields you from
the guts of Internet Config by letting you
choose your desired applications from
within Explorer — just pop open Prefer-
ences and click on Protocol Helpers (under
Network). Netsc'ape fans aren’t as lucky; a
bug in die current version (4.04. 1 ) of Com-
municator prevents remapping from w ork-
ing, although the stand-alone version of
Navigator works fine.
Because Netscape doesn’t provide a
remapping interface in either Navigator
or Communicator, you have to make any
changes in Internet Config. Launch the
application (it’s in the Communicator
folder), and click on the Helpers button;
from the dialog box that appears, choose
a protocol and click on the Change but-
ton to select a different application.
Beef Up Your Bookmarks
A disorganized bookmark list
that scrolls right off the bottom of your
screen is a huge time waster. After all,
w hat’s the point of bookmarking a site if
ferreting it out from the rest of your
bookmarks takes just as long as finding it
on the Web? Happily, both Internet
Explorer and Navigator offer some cool
features for taming your bookmarks.
Explorer calls its bookmarks menu
Favorites, but the mdy favored links live
in the Favorites Bar, just above the main
brow'ser w indow. You can customize the
Favorites Bar by dragging links directly
onto the bar or into the Toolbar Favorites
folder in the Favorites menu. Or drag a
folder from the Favorites menu to the
Favorites Bar — now' one click opens a
windowful of links.
Netscape Navigator’s approach to
bookmarks is still on the clumsy side, but
two tricks help bring some method to the
madness. First, you can designate a fold-
er in die BookmarLs file to catch new links
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as you add them. Second, tell Navigator
to display in the Bookmarks menu the
contents of any folder from the Book-
marks file. The default setting — the root
Folder — displays all the folders and their
contents in a hierarchical menu; choos-
ing a folder farther down in the hierarchy
gives you finer control over which sites
appear in the menu. For instance, if you
create a folder that contains only your
most frequendy accessed links, and then
designate that folder as the Bookmarks
Menu folder (open the Bookmarks win-
dow, select the folder, and choose Set as
Bookmarks Menu Folder from the \^ew
menu), only the links in that folder will
show up in your Bookmarks menu.
Stripped for Speed
Waiting for your browser to chew
through data you don’t want gets you
nowhere fast, and these days Web pages
are packed with huge graphics, audio files,
and video clips. Our next set of tips will
help you get just the data you need, as effi-
ciently as possible.
AAanage Your Media
Trying to fit all those graphic and
audio fireworks through a tiny modem is
like trying to stuff an elephant through a
soda straw. The biggest instant speed
boost you can give your browser is to turn
it all off. In Navigator, open Preferences,
click on Advanced, and uncheck the Auto-
matically Load Images box. In Explorer,
open Preferences and, from the Web
Content screen, uncheck the boxes in the
upper half of the Page Content box.
If you’re worried about what you’re
missing or if you visit a site that depends
heavily on graphics for navigation, you
can load the graphics either globally (in
Navigator, click on the Images button; in
Explorer, choose Load Images from the
View menu) or individually, by clicking on
tlie graphic’s placeholder icon.
5 Hold the Java
Although Java applets aren’t as
common (yet) as bloated graphics, they’re
just as big a time w^aster. Whenever you hit
a page with a Java applet, you can expect up
to a minute of downtime w hile your brows-
er starts up Java and pla}^ the applet — like-
ly a scrolling-text marquee. In Explorer, you
can disable Java by unchecking the Enable
Java box in Preferences’ Java screen; in
Navigator, uncheck the Enable Java box
in Preferences’ Advanced screen. (Don’t
turn off JavaScript, which adds little or no
overhead to your brow^sing experience.)
6 Cache In
Whenever you download a Web
page, your browser saves a copy of it in a
special folder, called a cache, on your hard
disk. The next time you visit that page,
your brow'ser tries to save time by load-
ing it from the cache.
In these days of gigabyte hard drives,
increasing your cache size and giving your
browser more space to squirrel away
pages is a cheap way to streamline your
browsing sessions. Both Explorer and
Navigator keep their cache settings in the
Preferences dialog box. If you can afford
the disk space, try doubling your cache
size and see if your browsing speeds up.
Does Your Browser Need Help?
ALTHOUGH MICROSOFT AND NETSCAPE HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB OF
making their Internet-connection suites one-stop shops, there's an
ocean of software you can add to your browser in the form of third-
party helper applications and plug-ins. Our advice? Keep it simple.
Plug-ins, in particular, come
at a price: they place a greater
burden on an already thin data
stream. The code built into both
Internet Explorer and Navigator
can handle most of the common
files you’re likely to encounter
while you surf. Additionally, both
include Apple's QuickTime plug-
in, which can play nearly any
multimedia file you're likely to
run across. The only plug-ins we
consider essential to well-round-
ed browsing are Progressive Net-
works’ Real Audio (free; 206/
447-0567, www.realaudio.com),
for streaming audio, and Macro-
media's Shockwave (free; 415/
252-2000, www.macromedia
.com), for animation.
While plug-ins display data
as part of the browsing experi-
ence, helper applications launch
separately when the browser
encounters a file It can't handle
by Itself. As with plug-ins,
though, Netscape and Microsoft
have each expanded the applica-
tions suite that accompanies their
browser to the point that it's
almost possible to get by without
any other software. We recom-
mend accessorizing your Internet
suite with just two extras:
Aladdin Systems’ Stuffit Deluxe
($129.95; 408/761 -62(X), www
.aladdinsys.com) and Adobe's
Acrobat Reader (free; 408/536-
6(XX), www.adobe.com).
Both Microsoft and Netscape
bundle Stuffit Expander with their
suites, but that software's engine
isn't PowerPC- native, and decom-
pression speed suffers noticeably
as a result. And Stuffit Expander
can’t compress or encode files for
Internet transmission, still a neces-
sity these days. Stuffit Deluxe, on
the other hand, can compress and
encode files in multiple formats, is
PowerPC-native, and includes
many other useful utilities for
organizing and archiving your files
(see Reviews, May 1998). If its
price tag seems a bit steep, at
least consider upgrading to
Aladdin's DropStuff with Expander
Enhancer — It offers compression
capabilities, greater choice of file
type (particularly the ubiquitous
.zip file format), and a PowerPC-
native engine.
We make our second recom-
mendation — Adobe’s Acrobat
Reader — somewhat reluctantly,
given the widespread aversion to
Adobe's PDF (Portable Document
Format). Acrobat Reader is tech-
nically a plug-in, but we classify It
as a helper application because
you can launch it separately. It’s
not particularly fast; it's some-
thing of a memory hog; and quite
frankly, we'd rather just see the
information in nice, clean HTML.
Nevertheless, due to the
ease of creating PDF documents
and the control it offers over for-
matting, PDF has become the
format of choice for people who
want to post large quantities of
data, such as documentation. If
you're a frequent surfer, you're
almost guaranteed to run across
a PDF document you absolutely
need to read. With that in mind,
we recommend that you down-
load and install Acrobat Reader
so that you'll have it available
when you need it.
Using helper applications or
plug-ins is a matter of personal
choice. Simply consider how much
overhead — in both data and time
— you’re adding before you install
every option you can find.
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The Lean Menu, Please To trim down an endless bookmarks list in
Navigator, select a folder containing the choicest sites; only those sites
will appear when you pull down the Bookmarks menu.
Sites While U Wait Subscribing to a page is the first step toward
having Internet Explorer automatically deliver pages to your desktop.
If you’re using Netscape Navigator
and looking for a real turbocharge, create
a RAM disk (open your Memory control
panel and turn RAM Disk on) and put your
cache folder on it by changing the folder’s
location in Preferences’ Advanced screen
under Cache. If you want more speed but
don’t have the extra memory for a RAM
disk, consider Surf Express from Connec-
tix (see Reviews, May 1998); it replaces your
browser’s caching mechanism with a much
more efficient one.
7 Let Your Browser Do the Walking
Save yourself connection charges
and open up your phone line for incoming
calls: surf offline! Both Internet Explorer
4.0 and Navigator 4.0 support offline
browsing, in that they check
the cache first for a request-
ed page, connecting only if
it’s necessary to download
the page.
Internet Explorer 4.0
takes offline browsing a
step further with Subscrip-
tions. If you “subscribe” to
a page on your Favorites
list. Explorer not only noti-
fies you when that page has
been updated but also auto-
matically downloads the
page in the background so
you can look at it later.
To subscribe to a page,
open the Favorites window,
select the desired page, and
choose Get Info from the
File menu. To have Explor-
er automatically download
the page, click on the Off-
line tab and fill in the details.
If you want Explorer to
download multiple pages or
even an entire site, just click
on the Options button in
the Offline tab and check
the Download Links box to
choose how much of the site
you want to collect.
In Navigator, you can
choose the What’s New?
command from the View
menu (with the Bookmarks
window open) to see if
pages have been updated,
but you’ll have to download
them manually. You can
also use a utiUty like Data-
viz’s Web Buddy ($39.95;
203/268-0030, www.dataviz.com) or Blue
Squirrel’s WebWliacker ($49.95; 801/
523-1063, www.webwhacker.com) to
download Web pages automatically.
No Wasted Motion
No matter how well tuned your browsing
software is, you’ll still spin your wheels if
you don’t know how to surf efficiently. If
you know where to look, you can mini-
mize browser downtime and increase your
chances of finding exactly what you’re
looking for.
8 Divide and Conquer
If you open only a single brows-
er window during a surfing session, you’re
working witli one band tied behind your
back. Whenever you click on a link, con-
sider opening it up in a new window by
bolding down the mouse button for a sec-
ond or two and selecting from tbe con-
textual menu that pops up (in Explorer,
you can simply §€-click on the link). You
can then go back to reading die previous
page while you wait for the new page to
finish downloading.
This technique is particularly handy
when you’re using a search engine.
(Explorer performs this two-window feat
for you if you use the Search tab on the
Explorer Bar.) Wiile a fink is opening in
another window, you can scan your search
list for other likely candidates. That way,
if your first choice turns out to be a dog,
you don’t have to reload the search results
to try again.
Search Carefully
You might get lucky when using
one of the big search engines; then again,
you might not. Do a little intelligent
research before you blindly cast forth a
query. A newsgroup FAQ (you’ll find a
list of FAQs at www.cis.ohio-state.edu/
hypertext/faq/usenet/top.html) will usual-
ly point you to prime information sites, if
not answer your question outright.
It also helps to learn about Boolean
logic, the lingo of search engines. The
good news is, if you’ve ever ordered a ham-
burger with cheese AND onions but NOT
pickles OR lettuce, you already speak all
the Boolean you’re likely to need. (For
more information on Boolean operators,
see “Better, Faster Web Searching,” Net-
S?nai% December 1996; http://macworld
.zdnet.com/pages_collection/december
.96/Column.2 893.html.) For a more thor-
ough tutorial on searching, see www
.askscott.com/tindex.html.
The Last Word
Even though modem speeds will contin-
ue to grow, so will the Web — and it
already contains more data than you could
see in five lifetimes. Now is as good a time
as any to learn how to get what you need
quickly. Making the most out of your
Web connection takes some forethought,
but a little time spent preparing to go
online will help you squeeze the useful
information from the Web — without
putting yourself through the wringer, m
CAMERON CROTTY (everyman@vy/enet.net) has
written about computers and telecommunications
since 300-baud modems were state-of-the-art.
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EXPERT CUlOE
INTERNET ESSENTIALS
EXPERT ADVICE
TO MAKE YOU
MASTER OF
YOUR MAILBOX
Tame
Your
E-Mail
FORGET THE WEB. That may be where the Internet gets its sex
appeal, but the Net’s heart and soul is e-mail. More than fax,
phone, or postal mail, e-mail has become the preferred method
of communication — whether you’re making important business
decisions or just staying in touch with far-flung family members.
But for every minute you save by using e-mail, you can easily
waste several more just dealing with the deluge of messages you
receive. If your e-mail program’s in-box contains thousands of
messages, you know what we mean.
BY ADAM C. ENGST
It doesn’t have to be this way. If you
follow the tips and strategies we’ve assem-
bled, you can make your e-mail work for
you, instead of spending all your time try-
ing to keep one step ahead of the flood.
Here we primarily focus on popular
Internet e-mail programs such as Qual-
comm’s (www.eudora.com) free Eudora
Light 3.1.3 and $39 Eudora Pro 4.0,
Apple’s (www.apple.com) $49 Emailer
2.0v3, Netscape’s (www.netscape.com)
free Messenger 4.04.1, Microsoft’s
(www.microsoft.com) free Outlook
Express 4.0, and CE Software’s (www
.cesoft.com) $70 QuickMail Pro 1.5.2.
(For Macworld's capsule reviews of all
these products, see the sidebar “Mas-
terful Mailers.”)
But even if you’re using a proprietary
LAN mail program or a commercial online
service, you should be able to use these
strategies to help you master your in-box.
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Make E-mail History
In the days before e-mail, your desk was
probably littered with scraps of paper
holding directions to friends’ houses,
minutes from a meeting that took place
the day you were sick, and more. Now
many of these communications take place
in e-mail — a medium much better suited
for storage and retrieval.
Be a Pack Rat Keep all your old
e-mail at your fingertips by saving almost
evei-ything you receive. Even if there’s
only a small chance that you might want
to read a message again, save it so you
can find it later.
r Any good e-mail program will search
I hundreds or even thousands of messages
g almost instantaneously. Some also offer
^ methods of quickly selecting groups of
i messages without making you resort to
I a Find feature. For example, in a mailbox
i in Eudora Pro, you can option-click on
the sender of a message to select all mes-
sages in that mailbox sent by diat person.
In Outlook Express, entering text in the
Display Subjects Containing box limits
the messages shown to the ones having
that text in the subject field.
I fly into La Guardia Airport in New
York City about once each year. Instead
of calling and asking for the complicat-
ed directions to my grandparents’ house
each time, I just print the e-mail message
my uncle sent me four years ago.
Make Mailboxes Just keeping
thousands of old messages in your in-
mailbox (or -folder, depending on which
program you use) isn’t enough. You
should be more organized than that.
After all, do you keep all the files on your
hard disk out on your desktop?
Wflienever you receive several impor-
tant messages on the same topic, create a
mailbox specifically for them. I organize
my mailbo.xes to suit how I’m likely to
specific messages. As a result, my
most important mailboxes hold mail from
specific people, usually my closest col-
leagues, and I have a more general mailbox
that holds personal mail from close fnends
and family, whatever the topic.
I also create mailboxes devoted to
specific projects, so I can quickly and
easily refer just to messages relevant to
those projects. In such situations, I nest
mailboxes inside each other. Of all
the mail programs we looked at for this
article, only QuickMail Pro doesn’t sup-
port hierarchical mailbo.xes.
Similarly, I keep a mailbox for every
mailing list to which I subscribe. As a
final catchall, you’ll probably want to
create mailboxes for hard-to-categorize
messages.
Taking Work Home If you check the
same mail account from both work and
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home, you must designate one location as
the “master” location and do all your fil-
ing at that location, or you risk having an
incomplete record of your e-mail.
For example, if you want your com-
puter at work to be the master location,
set the preferences of the mail program
you use at home to leave mail on the serv-
er. (Every program we looked at offers
this option.) Set the work mail program to
delete messages from the server. This way,
your master program will always have the
most complete set of e-mail.
Record Conversations While it’s easy
to be concerned about cleaning up mail
that comes in, most people never consider
what happens to mail they send out.
Think about it: your outgoing mes-
sages record everything you say in e-mail
and are an invaluable resource when mis-
communications occur or when someone
claims you said sometliing you didn’t. All
the e-mail programs we looked at can save
outgoing messages automatically. Make
sure yours is set to do so.
Long-term Storage Sooner or later
you’ll have too many messages in a mail-
box. But above all else, resist the tempta-
tion to delete messages when you need to
recover disk space. You never know when
Masterful Mailers
IN THE PREHISTORIC DAYS OF E-MAIL, PEOPLE RARELY GOT TO CHOOSE
which mail program to use: if your company used a QuickMail server, you
used QuickMail; if your company used a Lotus Notes server, you were stuck
with Notes. But as the world embraces Internet standards for e-mail, choices
abound. We looked at six popular Internet e-mail programs and rated them
based on strength of features and ease of use (see the table, “Speedy
Delivery: Six Internet E-mail Pro-
grams Compared"). We also fac-
tored in support for new Internet
standards such as IMAP (a new
format for retrieving e-mail that's
popular in large organizations),
LDAP (a directory-services proto-
col for looking up e-mail ad-
dresses), and HTML mall (which
enables styled text and graphics
within e-mail messages).
Emailer 2.0v3 Emaller, for-
merly of Claris and now sold by
Apple, offers some unique fea-
tures: it is able not only to check
Internet e-mail but also to send
and receive mail via CompuServe
and America Online. Emailer offers
excellent filtering capabilities, sup-
ports hierarchical mailboxes, and
provides a convenient window that
lists the results of your searches.
However, Emailer doesn't let
you send or receive styled text with
HTML mail. And Emailer stores all
messages in a single database file
that can become corrupted, en-
dangering all your saved mall.
Eudora Light 3.1.3 Qual-
comm's freeware Eudora Light
may be the most popular Macin-
tosh Internet e-mail program of all
time. Although its power and flex-
ibility pale in comparison with
those of Eudora Pro, Eudora Light
offers a basic set of features,
including hierarchical mailboxes,
and decent filters. These features
all come in a package with the
least-demanding system require-
ments of any of the programs list-
ed here, making Eudora Light Ideal
for older Macs with little RAM.
Eudora Pro 4.0 Where
Eudora Light leaves off, Eudora
Pro 4.0 picks up with a
vengeance. Eudora Pro adds a
more modern-looking interface
with dockable windows, addition-
al productivity-enhancing short-
cuts such as a Group Subjects
option that groups related mes-
sages even when the mailbox is
sorted by date or sender, the abil-
ity to create filters quickly based
on the current message (see the
screen shot "Instant Filters"),
many additional filter actions, and
multiple nickname files.
Eudora Pro 4.0 offers LDAP
and HTML-mail support (support
for IMAP is promised for version
4.1). Eudora Pro’s primary failing
is its Find feature, which, though
speedy, has a confusing Interface
and doesn't group found mes-
sages into a results window. (For
more on Eudora Pro 4.0, see
Reviews, in this issue.)
Netscape Messenger 4.04.1
The Messenger module of Net-
scape's free Communicator pack-
age Is a solid e-mail client that lets
you view your mall via either a
one-pane approach or a series of
individual windows. It offers ade-
quate filter features and hierarchi-
cal mailboxes, though Messenger
is very slow when filing messages
and its filters aren't as powerful as
those in most other programs.
Messenger offers extremely strong
support for emerging Internet
standards such as IMAP, LDAP,
and HTML mail.
Because Messenger is inte-
grated with Netscape Communi-
cator, you can easily switch from
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you might need those messages; for
instance, they could be instrumental in
legal proceedings.
Instead of deleting your old e-mail,
move messages to dated mailboxes with
descriptive names such as “Monica L.
1996-1997.” If you’re hurting for disk
space, store messages on a floppy or Zip
disk. If you’ve built up a whole lot of mail,
you can even burn it to a CD.
Since I send more than 1,000 messages
each month, I archive my sent mail every
month, and once a year I archive messages
in other mailboxes. The day Kenneth Starr
comes to me asking about my role in
Whitewater, I’ll be ready.
Trash Carefully There’s nothing
worse than that sinking feeling you get
when you realize that not only did you
move an important message to the trash
but you’ve also set your e-mail program to
purge your trash mailbox automatically.
At that point, it’s too late.
So whatever you do, don’t set your
e-mail program to empty the trash when
you quit. Disk space is cheap, and you may
save 15 minutes of searching for an e-mail
address by retrieving it from a deleted mes-
sage in your trash mailbox. Once each
month or so, I sort my trash mailbox by
Lost and Found Outlook Express 4.0 can display all the messages that meet
your search criteria in its mailbox-style Search Results window.
reading e-mail to browsing Usenet
newsgroups and the Web. But
you pay for this integration: Com-
municator takes up a lot of disk
space and has large RAM require-
ments, and its interface can be
confusing.
Outlook Express 4.0 De-
spite the version number, Outlook
Express is essentially a new prod-
uct that comes with Microsoft's
free Internet Explorer 4.0 Web
browser. Like Netscape Messen-
ger, Outlook Express offers news-
group reading as well as support
for IMAP, LDAP, and HTML mail.
Among Outlook Express's best
features are its background
spelling checker that underlines
misspelled words (but only If
you've got Microsoft Office 98
installed) and its capability to apply
a temporary filter to a mailbox by
letting you enter text in the Dis-
play Subjects Containing box.
Outlook Express sports pow-
erful filters and an elegant Find
interface, complete with a Search
Results window listing all found
messages (see the screen shot
"Lost and Found"). But since it's a
brand-new program, it's not with-
out bugs and quirks.
QuickMail Pro 1.5.2 Once
a proprietary e-mail client, Quick-
Mail moved to support Internet
standards with QuIckMail Pro,
which offers several unique fea-
tures: if you option-click on a mes-
sage summary, you get a quick pre-
view of the message;
the program lets you
send messages on spe-
cial graphical forms
that can contain
Images, check boxes,
and user-defined
fields; and It offers a
scrolling mail ticker
that displays the
senders and subjects
of Incoming messages.
But many of
QuIckMail Pro's
bread-and-butter
features are lacking.
The program has cramped mes-
sage windows, limited filtering fea-
tures, and no hierarchical mailbox-
es. QuIckMail Pro relies heavily on
dialog boxes, making it difficult to
move within the program without
lots of mousing and clicking.
On top of all that, QuIckMail
Pro is the most expensive of any
e-mail program reviewed here. As
a result, we can't recommend it
unless you're a die-hard fan of
the original QuIckMail who wants
the same interface in an Internet
e-mail program.
AAacworld's Buying Advice
Which e-mail program is right for
you depends on how much
money you're willing to spend.
The best value In an e-mail pro-
gram is Microsoft's free Outlook
Express 4.0, especially if you use
Microsoft Office 98 and prefer
Internet Explorer to Netscape
Navigator. Though it's new and
has some growing to do. Outlook
Express offers a feature set com-
parable to those of commercial
packages.
But for those who take their
e-mail seriously and want the
absolute best, Eudora Pro 4.0 is
the answer. It's the most mature
of the programs and has the most
complete feature set.
instant Filters In Eudora Pro 4.0 you can quickly
create a filter based on the content of an already
received message.
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TAME YOUR E-MAIL
date and delete the older half of the mes-
sages to save the space and speed up my
e-mail program. For those who don’t like
to take out the trash at all, Emailer can be
set to automatically delete trashed mes-
sages after a set number of days.
Running Mail through Filters
One of the reasons why so many people
don’t file important messages consistently
is because they don’t realize how
much of the work their e-mail
programs can do for them by way
of filtering. Most of the mail I
receive is automatically moved
into an appropriate mailbox by my
e-mail program, thanks to filters
I’ve created.
What's a Filter? Most e-mail
programs let you perform a vari-
ety of actions on e-mail messages
based on the messages’ contents.
Since the most common use for
these actions is to move messages
to different mailboxes, the actions
are usually called filters^ although
some e-mail programs call them
“rules” or “mail actions.” Some
e-mail programs’ filters can ana-
lyze only common header lines
such as To, From, Date, and Priority,
whereas others can analyze the messages
themselves or even the gobbledygook
headers most humans try to ignore.
Most filters merely transfer messages
to a mailbox or mark them in some way —
which can be useful in itself — but the fil-
ters can also be much more powerful.
Some e-mail programs* filters let you open
messages, display mailboxes with new mes-
sages, play sounds, display alert dialogs,
print messages, add addresses to your
address book, reply with a canned message,
forward or redirect messages to someone
else, or even execute an AppleScript, all
based on the contents of a given message.
Of the programs we looked at, Eudo-
ra Pro, Emailer, and Outlook E.xpress fea-
ture the most filter criteria, methods of
matching, and actions that filters can per-
form. Netscape Messenger and Quick-
Mail Pro can’t effectively filter spam (see
the sidebar “Stamp Out Spam!”), because
they don’t allow you to search for text in
any of a message’s header lines.
Filter Tricks Earlier I suggested that
you transfer messages you receive from
mailing lists from your in-box into their
own mailboxes. The good news is that you
don’t have to waste time doing this by
hand if you set up a filter to do it for you.
If you use Eudora Pro 4.0, the process
is made even simpler by Eudora ’s Make Fil-
ter feature, which analyzes a selected mes-
sage and provides a point-and-click inter-
face for creating a few common filter types.
Ml messages from a specific mailing
list will have some characteristic in com-
mon that will let your filter catch the mes-
sages and move them to their own mail-
box. Look at several messages from a
mailing list you’re on, and see w^hat they
have in common. Look particularly at the
header of the messages — those lines at the
top that include To, From, Cc, Date, and
Priority. One of them, usually To or
From, will be the same in every message.
Once you’ve found the common ele-
ment, create a mailbox to hold the mes-
sages and set your filter’s action to trans-
fer all messages containing that element
to that new mailbox. The next time you
check your mail, your e-mail program will
look for that pattern in every incoming
message. If it finds a matching message, it
will transfer that message to the mailbox
you created so you don’t have to read the
message until you’re ready. No more wad-
ing through Word-of-the-Day postings
when you need to read the e-mail that’s
necessary to finish your real w^ork.
Combating Spam
Junk e-mail, also knowm as spam, is one
of the banes of today’s Internet. It’s just
like the junk postal mail you receive,
although usually spam is sleazier. The
main problem with spam is that its vol-
ume threatens to drown out the impor-
tant messages you receive.
Can That Spam You’re probably ask-
ing, “But w'hy can’t I just filter all the
spam to the Trash?” Unfortunately, spam-
mers go to great efforts to disguise their
messages and to remove information that
w^ould make the spam easy to filter. But
never fear: you can employ counter-spam
measures. Most spammers use the same
programs for sending spam, and those
programs leave telltale clues you can use
to identify and eradicate bother-
sf)me messages. (For a list of ways
to detect and filter spam, see the
sidebar “Stamp Out Spam!”)
It’s all too easy to catch a
legitimate piece of mail in a spam
filter, so I don’t recommend fil-
tering spam directly to the Trash
unless you plan to check the
Trash periodically. Instead, filter
potential spam to another mail-
box (perhaps named Junk), and
every so often, scan the mailbox
for legitimate messages before
deleting everything.
Run Silent, Run Deep The
easiest way to rid yourself of spam
is simply to avoid the places that
spammers frequent. First, avoid
posting to Usenet newsgroups,
since spammers regularly analyze posted
messages and add the posters’ addresses
to their lists. If you must post, set your
e-mail address to something fake, like
adamNOSPAMengst@tidbits.com, and
include a line in your message such as “To
send me e-mail, remove NOSPAM from
my e-mail address.”
Second, avoid putting your e-mail
address on your Web page — spammers
send out automated programs, called
robots, to scan Web pages for e-mail
addresses. You can foil this dastardly
technique by spelling out your address
(“E-mail me at adamengst at tidbits
.com”); a geckier technique involves the
use of a simple JavaScript that stops
address-gathering robots but still allows
people to click on a link to send you
mail. (See http://db.netbits.net/getbits
.acgi?nbart=04661 for details on the Java-
Script technique.)
Finally, never reply to a spam message
asking to be removed. Most of the time,
your reply will bounce back to you, since
spammers aren’t interested in receiving
mail, just sending it. Worse, if your mes-
sage doesn’t bounce, you’ve just identified
yourself as having a valid e-mail address
that’s prime for more spam in the fuuire.
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Stamp Out Spam!
I'VE RECEIVED COUNTLESS AMOUNTS OF SPAM IN THE LAST YEAR. IN
the interest of science, Tve saved all of it — and I've analyzed it to
identify the best ways of separating spam from real e-mail. Here are
eight great methods for identifying spam.
Set up a filter that looks for
messages that don't contain
your e-mail address in either the
To or the CC lines. Most spam
fits this description — but so can
legitimate messages, since any-
one can send you a message
by putting your address in the
BCC (blind carbon copy) line. As
a result, you shouldn't automat-
ically delete these messages —
just mark them as potential
spam. (Be sure that this filter is
used only after you've already
filtered out messages from your
Internet mailing lists, since that
mail would also be picked up
by this filter.)
This filter catches about half
of all the spam messages I
receive. Users of Emailer can
Improve this filter even more by
checking to see if messages were
sent by a person in your address
book — those that aren't are even
more likely to be spam.
2 Look for the string "-0600
(EST)" in the header. That
string indicates how many hours
off from Greenwich mean time
the sender's time zone is. The
catch is that eastern standard time
never equals -0600 — that Incor-
rect time stamp Is a bug In one
specific spam-sending program.
3 Look for a header line that
contains "Comments: Authen-
ticated sender is" but does not
contain the line "X-Mailer:
Pegasus." The Pegasus Mail
e-mail program uses both lines;
spam uses only the first.
4 Look for the header line
"X-PMFLAGS." Although
Pegasus Mail supposedly uses this
too. I've only ever seen It in spam.
Look for an "X-Ad" header
line. Although most spam
tries to disguise Itself, some spam
messages Include this header.
Look for either you or friend
In the To line, unless your
e-mail address contains those
words. Make sure not to delete
messages that contain such
words without checking, since
there's nothing stopping some-
one from using these words
legitimately.
7 Look in the body of the
message for the string
"Extractor Pro Bulk E-Mail" or
"This message is being brought
to you by EMAIL BLASTER 2.5,"
since those bulk-e-mall pro-
grams advertise themselves In
every piece of spam they send.
Finally, look In the Subject
line of messages for text
that's likely to appear only In
spam. For instance, you might
mark messages whose subject
lines include multiple exclama-
tion points; multiple dollar signs;
the words money, sex, or adult;
and so on. Be careful of filtering
such messages without check-
ing, because those words can
easily appear in the subject lines
of legitimate messages.
Dealing with E-mail Attachments
Ever receive an e-mail attachment you
couldn’t open? Most of us have. Files must
be formatted in a specific way to survive
being transferred via e-mail. Unfortunate-
ly, there are several encoding formats, and
not all e-mail programs understand how
to create or read all of them.The trick to
sending attachments successfully is to
know what e-mail program and operating
s)'stem your recipient uses.
Foolproof Encoding If your recipient
uses a recently released e-mail program on
either a Mac or a PC, default settings for
attachment fonnats should usually work. If
diey don’t, look for settings called MLME
or AppleDouble. Many people don’t
update their e-mail programs regularly,
though, so if you’re having trouble sending
to someone who might be using an older
e-mail program on the Mac, try^ BinHex.
For PC users, try UUencode. (For an in-
depth guide to making file attachments
work, see “The Heartbreak of MLME
Attachments,” SecretSy in this issue.)
Compression Issues MTen sending
lots of files or large files, it’s generally a
good idea to compress them before send-
ing, to reduce transfer time. The standard
way to do this on the Mac is with Aladdin
Systems’ (408/761-6200, mw.aladdinsys
.com) $130 Stuffit Deluxe or $30 shareware
DropStuff. Maybe people already have
Aladdin’s free Stuffit Expander on their
Macs and won’t have any trouble decom-
pressing the file. If you want to be extra sure
they’ll get the file, however, you can use
Stuffit to create a self-extracting archive,
which can expand without any help.
It’s when you’re sending from a Mac
to a Windows PC that you might get
into trouble. You’ll need to either use
standard compression format for PCs —
the Zip format — or avoid compression
entirely. Luckily for you, there’s a Mac
utility — ^Tom Brown’s $15 Zipit (www
.awa.com/softlock/zipit/) — that can cre-
ate Zip files for you to share with your
Windows-using friends.
Zipit will also expand the Zip files you
receive from PC users. Those witli eidier
Stuffit Deluxe or DropStuff can also use
Stuffit E.xpander to expand Zip files. (For
more cross-platform file-transfer tips, see
“Save Your Mac!” April 1998.)
In Search of Attachments Attach-
ments must live somewhere on your disk,
but the default location the e-mail pro-
gram picks may not be ideal. Create a
folder called Downloads and set it as the
destination for all your e-mail attach-
ments and for everything you download
via the Web or FTP. That way, when you
want to find something you’ve received
from the outside world, you need look
only in a single place.
Also, if you’re using Mac OS 8.0 or
8.1, consider making that folder into a
tabbed window and docking it at the bot-
tom of your screen for fast access. I sort my
Downloads folder by date so that the most
recent items rise to the top of the window.
The Last Word
No matter which e-mail program you use,
you can take advantage of these strategies
for handling your e-mail more efficiently
and effectively. Set up mailboxes to orga-
nize all the different t}q)es of e-mail mes-
sages you receive, and tlien create filters
to transfer those messages to the right
places. These simple techniques, com-
bined with some anti-spam filters, will
keep your in-box uncluttered and help
you deal more quickly with the important
messages you receive. And, of course, the
less time you spend on e-mail, the more
time you have for the real world, m
ADAM C. ENGST is the publisher of the online
newsletter Tidbits and the author of Eudora for
Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
(Peachpit Press, 1997).
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KEVIN CANDIAND
These Speakers
Provide
Great Sound
without Breaking
the Bank
Easy
Listening
by Stephen Beale
music. But thanks to a new generation of speakers from
companies such as Yamaha and Altec T^ansing, you can
enjoy great Mac-based stereo sound for music and
games without breaking the bank.
Macworld looked at 14 multimedia speaker s)^stems
with prices ranging from $70 to $600. We hooked up
each speaker system to a Performa 6400 and evaluated
audio quality, using music CDs, computer games, and
Mac sounds such as system alerts. For the CDs, we chose
music that exposes common speaker weaknesses such as
boomy bass, muted trebles, and harsh midtones. Our
selections ran the gamut from symphonies and solo
piano to jazz and hard rock.
We found that at the lower end of die price scale,
you’re still likely to encounter speakers that make your
favorite music sound as if it’s coming from the bottom
of a barrel. But we did discover several systems in the
$150-to-$200 range that will please most audiophiles
and multimedia fans.
V
/ you wouldn’t know it from the wimpy speakers built
into most Mac models. The killer CD that booms from
OUR AAACINTOSH CAN AAAKE BEAUTIFUL AAUSIC, BUT
your stereo produces a tinny echo when played on your
CD-ROM drive, and your favorite computer-game
soundtracks sound muffled and distant. But there’s an
easy way to turn your Mac into a true entertainment
center and get full sonic impact from music and multi-
media: just add a decent set of multimedia speakers.
.A few years ago, you had to spend at least $300 to
get computer speakers with sound quality that rivaled
that of a home stereo system. Inexpensive speakers were
fine for boosting the volume of computer games but
sounded like cheap boom boxes when reproducing
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EASY LISTENING
Pumping Up the Volume
Mouse
List
Phone
Warranty
Company
Product
Rating
Price
Number
(in years)
Pieces
Wattage
Altec Lansing
PowerCube ACS45
m
$100
717/296-4434
1
3
32 (20 + 6 + 6)
PowerCube ACS48
$150
717/296-4434
1
3
80 (40 + 20 + 20)
Bose
Acoustimass
$600
508/879-7330
1
3
not available
MediaMate
$200
508/879-7330
1
2
not available
Jazz
Jazz3D
♦♦'A
$225
818/336-2689
2
3
46 (18 + 14+ 14)
Jazz J-590
M’a
$90
818/336-2689
2
2
28 (14 + 14)
Jazz J-902 subwoofer
$80
818/336-2689
2
1
18
Labtec
LCS-1030
♦♦♦’A
$70
360/896-2000
1
2
10 (5 + 5)
LCS-2408 subwoofer
♦♦’A
$70
360/896-2000
1
1
14
LCS-2612
m
$160
360/896-2000
1
3
20 (12 + 4 + 4)
MidiLand
S2/MidiLand 4100
$400
909/592-1168
3
4
100 (50 + 25 + 25)
Roland
MA9
♦«’A
$150
360/332-4211
1
2
16(8 + 8)
Yamaha
System 45
$200
714/522-9011
1
3
45 (25 + 10 + 10)
YST-M100
$180
714/522-9011
1
2
40 (20 + 20)
A Different Beast
So what makes a speaker a multimedia
speaker? First, it needs a built-in amplifi-
er to boost the weak audio signal from
your Mac. It also needs shielding in the
enclosure to prevent magnetic emissions
from interfering with your computer dis-
play. And unlike their home-stereo-
system counterparts, which you generally
want to place in the far corners of a room,
multimedia speakers are designed for up-
close listening.
A Few Easy Pieces In a typical two-
piece multimedia-speaker system, one
speaker — generally the right one — func-
tions as a control center, with a built-in
amplifier, power supply, and volume con-
trol as well as built-in cable connections.
You plug the control speaker into your
Mac’s headphone jack and then plug the
second speaker into the first with a single
cable — ^no extra equipment such as an AV
card or adapter is needed. Most speaker
systems also include a second audio-input
jack, which is useful if you want to con-
nect an audio-CD player or radio and is
essential if you have an external CD-
ROM drive with separate audio output.
Hearing the Low Notes In addition
to two main speakers, often called satel-
lites^ some systems include a third com-
ponent called a subwoofer, which enhances
the bass response. Subwoofer is a bit of a
misnomer, since it implies that the speak-
er produces sounds at a lower frequency
than a woofer (below 20Hz), but the sub-
woofers sold with multimedia speakers
(and with many stereo systems) are really
just woofers housed in their own enclo-
sures. Bose more correctly refers to its
subwoofers as bass modules.
But don’t assume that a three-piece
system will produce better sound than a
two-piece system; in our roundup, we
discovered that some two-piece systems
outperformed three-piece systems in
sound quality.
Sounding Out the Best
When Macwo?‘ld last did a roundup
of multimedia speakers (“Multimedia
Speakers,” March 1996), the three-piece
Acoustimass system from Bose (www
.bose.com) earned the highest rating,
despite its hefty $700 list price. Two years
later, the Acoustimass — now pared down
to $600 — still offers the best sound qual-
ity of the speakers we tested.
The Acoustimass satellites measure
only 3 inches tall by 4.5 inches deep, but
the system delivers an unbelievably rich
and realistic sound. Our only complaint
is that the volume, bass, and treble con-
trols are located on the bass module, mak-
ing them hard to reach if you put the unit
on the floor. But if you care about sound
quality above all else, you’ll probably be
able to overlook this inconvenience.
The Acoustimass may be an audio-
phile’s dream, but $600 is quite a hefty
price, considering that your Mac is prob-
ably not your primary CD player. Four
other systems we listened to offer audio
quality approaching that of the Acousti-
mass, but they do so for less than $200.
The best bargain of the bunch is the
$150 three-piece PowerCube ACS48,
from Altec Lansing (www.altecmm.com).
Its massive subwoofer and 6-inch-tall
satellite speakers deliver audio quality
you’d expect from a decent home stereo.
The volume and power controls are
conveniently located on top of the right
satellite speaker. The downside is that
these are electronic controls: you push an
up arrow to raise the volume and a down
arrow to lower it. We prefer dial controls,
but that’s a minor quibble, given the
sound quality and value of the ACS48.
Don’t confuse the ACS48 with Altec
Lansing’s three-piece PowerCube ACS45;
the model numbers are similar, but the
systems’ audio quality is worlds apart.
Designed primarily for use with comput-
er games, the $100 ACS45 offers much
weaker bass and a generally harsher sound
than the PowerCube ACS48.
Yamaha’s $200 System 45 (www
.yamaha.com) combines the 10-inch-tall
YST-M15 satellite speakers with the
YST-MSWIO subwoofer (the satellite set
and subwoofer are also available separate-
84 June 1 998 MACWORLD
Comments
Harsh midtones and treble, weak bass; compact design for three-piece system.
Excellent music reproduction for the price; subwoofer consumes a lot of floor space.
Best-sounding but most expensive speaker system in roundup; controls Inconveniently located on bass module.
Best-sounding two-speaker system in roundup; excellent bass for a two-piece system.
Mediocre music reproduction, especially for the pri ce; 3-D sound adds distortion.
Mediocre sound for the price; muffled treble.
Stand-alone subwoofer for use with other vendors' satellite speakers; powerful but boomy bass.
Marketed as inexpensive audiophile system, but weak bass and muffled treble.
Stand-alone subwoofer for use with other vendors' satellite speakers; weak bass compared to that of Jazz J-902.
Mediocre* music reproduction, with weak bass and muffled treble; 3-D-sound option distorts music, but not as much as
that of other products; includes mounting bracket for satellites.
Powerful 100-watt amp; controls conveniently located on separate control module; sounds harsh at higher volumes;
3-D sound adds distortion.
Bulky; speakers offer decent sound reproduction, but a little harsh in the midtones; separate microphone input.
Excellent music reproduction; compact subwoofer puts out dean but powerful bass.
Bulky speakers with good sound quality for a two-piece system.
ly for Si 00 each). The compact sub-
woofer puts out a clean hut powerful bass,
and the system overall delivers excellent
audio quality. The satellites, a bit bulkier
than those of the Acoustimass and
ACS48, include dial controls for volume
and tone, as well as a second audio input.
We were also impressed by a pair of
two-piece systems: Bose’s $200 Media-
Mate and Yamaha’s $180 YST-MIOO.
Both offer surprisingly powerful bass and
excellent overall sound quality, but we
were especially impressed by the Media-
Mate. Pop in a CD and close your eyes,
and you won’t believe such rich sound is
coming from such small speakers.
Roland’s $150 two-piece MA9 (www
.edirol.com) offered reasonable sound
quality but had harsh midtones.
Power for a Price
For sheer volume, nothing beats Midi-
Land’s massive $400 S2/MidiLand 4100
(www.midiland.com), a four-piece system
with black aluminum-encased satellites
and a gargantuan 30-pound subwoofer —
about the size and shape of a CPU
tower — that has a built-in 100-watt
amplifier. The fourth piece is a control
module linked to the subwoofer by a 10-
foot cable.
Although it delivers the most
wattage of any system we tested, the
4100 proves that bigger and more pow-
erful is not necessarily better. Midtones
and trebles sound harsh, especially at
higher volumes. We also question why
anyone other than a heavy-metal fanatic
would want such powerful speakers so
close to their computer. This system
might find a home in computer-presen-
tation facilities, but don’t even thhik
about taking it on the road.
3-D Follies
The 4100 is one of several speaker
systems in our roundup that offers a
3-D-sound option, where audio-process-
ing tricks make it seem as if the sound is
playing all around you. But the effect is
like being inside a reverb chamber and
can be quite annoying; fortunately, it’s
easy to turn on and off.
The $160 LCS-2612, from Labtec
(www.labtec.com), offers the cleanest
3-D sound of the systems we tested, but
the distortion was still apparent. And
with the 3-D option turned off, music
sounded like it was coming from the bot-
tom of a barrel. We were even less
impressed with the $225 Jazz 3D, from
Jazz (www.jazzspeakers.com). Without
the 3-D option, music sounds muffled.
With 3-D turned on, it sounds shrill.
Both are three-piece systems: Lab-
tec’s subwoofer includes all system con-
trols and is designed to sit next to your
computer; the satellites hang from each
side of a bracket you place on top of the
monitor. The Jazz system’s controls are
on the right satellite speaker. Both of
these systems’ subwoofers deliver weak
bass compared to those in the Yamaha and
Altec Lansing systems.
Labtec and Jazz also offer stand-
alone subwoofers that can be used to
enhance the bass response in otlier ven-
dors’ speakers. Jazz’s $80 J-902 sub-
woofer adds a lot of oomph to the bass
but sounds a tad boomy. Labtec’s $70
LCS-2408 subwoofer sounds positively
wimpy by comparison.
Macworld's Buying Advice
If you want truly superior audio quality
and are willing to pay a lot for it, your
choice is clearly the Acoustimass system
from Bose. No other speakers come close
to matching the richness of their sound.
But to get the best audio quality for the
money, we recommend Altec Lansing’s
$150 PowerCuhe ACS48 or Yamaha’s
$200 System 45; the latter offers more-
convenient controls and slightly cleaner
bass but comes with a higher price.
Among the mo-piece systems, we found
that Yamaha’s $180 YST-MIOO and Bose’s
$200 MediaMate deliver the best sound
quality; we lean toward the latter, because
of its richer reproduction of bass tones, m
Senior editor STEPHEN BEALE is a longtime
audiophile and Macworld's news editor.
EDITORS' CHOICE
Two-Piece Systems
Bose MediaMate This compact
speaker set has rich sound quality and surpris-
ingly powerful bass for a two-piece system.
Company: Bose (508/879-7330, www.bose
.com). List price: $200.
Three-Piece Systems
MMv, Altec Lansing PowerCube ACS48
Although its large subwoofer takes up a lot of
space, this speaker system has excellent sound
quality— like that you'd expect from a decent
home stereo — for a good price. Company: Altec
Lansing (717/296-4434, www.altecmm.com).
List price: $150.
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The Heartbreak of MIME Attachments
BINHEX, BASE64, UUENCODE, AND OTHER E-MAIL MYSTERIES EXPLAINED
by Joseph Schorr
S omething has gone terribly
wrong. Your project is due at
noon, and the client just sent
you an e-mail attachment con-
taining last-minute revisions.
But your Mac can’t open the
file. Double-clicking on it just
brings up an error message.
Thinking the file must be cor-
rupted, you frantically phone the client
and have him send it again. But the new
file still won’t open. Desperate, you pry
open the manuscript with your word pro-
cessor, but all you see is page after page
of meaningless garbage characters.
Wliat’s wrong with the file? Probably
nothing. You’ve simply become another
victim of MIA4E.
What Happened?
Let me explain: That string of seemingly
meaningless text isn’t garbage — it’s code.
To ensure the attachment’s safe passage
over the Internet, your client’s e-mail
program encoded the file using an
encryption scheme called MliVIE (Multi-
purpose Internet Mail Extensions).
MLME uirned the file into a string of text
characters. Unfortunately, your e-mail
program failed to decode the MLME file
back into its original format. The good
news: you can decode it yourself.
Actually, three types of encoding are
routinely used to send attached files via
e-mail: MLVIE, UUencode, and BinHex.
All three can potentially leave you with
file attachments that look unintelligible.
Read on for an explanation of these mys-
terious codes, why they exist, and how
you can crack them open and make your
files look the way they are supposed to.
Why It Happened
Most e-mail systems are designed to
handle plain-old ASCII characters. These
text-based systems use 7 bits of data to
specify each character. But many files —
such as graphics, databases, and movies —
contain a lot more than just plain text.
The data packed into such files is stored
in a binary format that uses not 7 but 8
bits to define each morsel of information.
So how do you transmit 8-bit data
through a 7-bit system? That’s where
encoding comes in. Encoding schemes
use an encrj'ption system that represents
each hunk of 8-bit binarj' data as a string
of plain-old ASCII text — text that can
travel intact across any file server,
through any mail gateway, and into any
e-mail program, regardless of platform.
continues
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SECRETS
Breaking the Code
E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS AND DOWNLOADED FILES THAT ARRIVE ENCODED AND
unreadable can usually be decoded and turned back into usable files. Keep these tips In mind
when using decoding tools.
If at First You Don’t Succeed ... If your decoding efforts fail, don't be too quick to con-
clude that a file is corrupted; you may be using the wrong decoding tool. There is more than
one kind of UUencoding, for example, and a number of MIME variations. If one UUdecoder
doesn't work, try another. You may have to run a file through several different utilities that all
claim to do the same thing to find one that offers the particular flavor of decoding you require.
Don't Autodelete Some decoding utilities offer the option of automatically deleting an
encoded file after the decoding process — convenient but dangerous. If something goes wrong,
you may have to try decoding the file again. Keep original encoded files around until you have
a clean, saved copy of the decoded file; then drag the originals to the Trash.
Be a Code Detective If an attempt to decode a file doesn’t work, open the file with
your word processor and read the header at the beginning of the code; it will reveal the type
of encoding that the sender used.
It’s Not Over Till It’s Over Some files are compressed and encoded. You may decode a
UUencoded file, for example, only to find that it then has to be decompressed using UnZip.
Don’t Count on Double-Clickability If a file still won't open after you’ve successfully
decoded it, try opening it from within the application that created it, using the Open command.
UUencoded files, in particular, tend to lose their type and creator codes in transit and arrive as
documents with generic icons. These files won't open with a double-click because the Mac
doesn't know what program to use to open them. Opening the files from within the appropri-
ate application solves the problem. (If you don't know what type of file you’ve got, you'll just
have to guess. Keep trying different types of programs till you get one that works.)
V\^en an encoded file arrives at its desti-
nation, it’s up to your e-mail program to
detect the encoding system used and
convert the file back into its original
binary form — and that’s what usually
happens, behind the scenes, without your
even knowing about it.
However, sometimes the particular
encoding system used by the sender isn’t
supported by the recipient’s mail pro-
gram — there are several different (and
incompatible) versions of UUencoding,
for example — and the result is that tiles
arrive in their encoded state.
On Mac systems, the most popular
encoding scheme is BinHex. UUencod-
ing is an older scheme with Unix origins
(the UU stands for Unix-to-Unix). The
most popular — and most current — sys-
tem is MLME, which is also called Base64.
How to Fix It
Fixing a file that arrives in its encoded
state is usually a simple drag-and-drop
affair. You can assemble a pretty compre-
hensive decoding kit widiout spending
much money. Use the freeware Stuffit
Expander, by Aladdin Systems, to open
BinHex files (usually tagged with a .hqx
suffix at the end of the file name) and to
decompress .sit files. Add the $30 share-
ware DropStuff with Expander Enhancer
to Aladdin’s Stuffit Expander, and your
decoding/decompressing options multi-
ply: you can handle UUencoded files
(usually tagged with a .uu suffi.x), as well
as a number of compression formats, in-
cluding .zip, .z, .gz, and .ARC files.
If you’re willing to assemble an arse-
nal of smaller, specialized tools, you can
spend even less — in fact, nothing — to
decode attachments. Open UUencoded,
BinHex, and Base64 files with Laurent
Hagimont’s free utility, uucd. Crack open
MIME files with Brian Clark’s YA Base64
or John Myers’s Mpack — both freeware.
Finally, you can use A. R Maika’s free-
ware UnZip 5.32 to tackle zipped files
from PC users. These indispensable util-
ities are available from Mac Downloads
at Macworld Online.
With most of them, you simply drag
the files onto the icon of the appropriate
utility to launch the decoding process.
For tips on using these utilities, see
“Breaking the Code.”
How do you determine which utility
to use? Usually, a file’s name provides a
clue. UUencoded files may end with .uu;
Base64 files may end with .MLME.
Often, though, the suffix is missing; in
that case, you have to do some detective
work. One easy way to figure out the
encoding method used is to open the file
in question with a word processor —
remember, encoded files are just strings
of plain text, and each type of encoding
has telltale characteristics (check out
“Clues to Decoding”).
It may take several rounds of decod-
ing, decompressing, and deciphering to
tame the attachments that show up in
your in-box, but with a few of the right
tools and a little perseverance, you’ll
never feel victimized by MliVIE again, m
JOSEPH SCHORR is a program manager at Extensis
and a coauthor of the forthcoming Macworld Mac
Secrets, fifth edition (IDG Books Worldwide).
Clues to Decoding
ENCODED FILES MAY LOOK LIKE RANDOM GARBAGE. BUT THEY
contain plenty of clues that reveal how to handle them. The header in
the first document reveals that it is a Base64 MIME file. You can tell
that the second document is UUencoded because every line starts with
the letter Ad. BinHex files, like the third document, always contain a
line at the top that says the file must be converted with BinHex.
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Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts
One of Mac OS 8.0 and S.Vs little secrets
is that their pop-up windows can imitate
the Launcher control panel — and even
have advantages over the Launcher. You
can resize pop-up windows individually
and set view options differently for each
one, and they disappear when not in use.
To make them act like the Launcher, sim-
ply choose As Buttons from the View
menu for each pop-up window, and set
the Keep Arranged option of the View
Options command to By Name.
The drawback of using pop-ups like
this is that when a window covers your
pop-up tabs, you lose one-step access to
the pop-up windows. But to make your
pop-up windows more accessible. Art
Gorski of Houston, Texas, suggests you
put their folders (or aliases of the folders)
in the Apple Menu Items folder in your
System Folder. Then you can access a
pop-up window and its contents quickly
from the Apple menu even if the pop-up
tab is buried under a stack of windows.
WTiat’s more, the Apple menu updates
automatically when you change the con-
tents of a pop-up window listed diere.
Conversely, Jed Singer of Claremont,
California, keeps die Recent Applications
folder open as a pop-up window. He drags
files onto the Recent Applicadons tab, and
the window obligingly pops up to reveal
recent applicadons, and he’s in business.
Overcoming Download Interruption
Q I want to download a large file from
. the Internet, and for some freaking
reason I cannot maintain a connection
for the duration of the download. Is there
any freeware or shareware that would let
by Lon Poole
me go back to the site and resume down-
loading where I left off, rather than hav-
ing to start over from the beginning?
Cameron M. Bobbett
Charleston, South Carolina
A If you’re downloading from an
. FTP ser\’er (the URL begins with
ftp://, not http://), try the Fetch file-trans-
fer program from Dartmouth College
(ww'w'.dartmouth.edu/pages/softdev/fetch
.html). The Resume Download command
in Fetch’s Remote menu can somerimes
resume an interrupted download (use
Fetch Help for details on this command’s
limitations). Fetch is $25 shareware (free
for educational and nonprofit organiza-
tions), but check with your Internet ser-
vice provider, as some ISPs license it for
free distribution to their Mac customers.
Curing QuickTime Web Silence
Q I put a couple of great songs
. recorded by my friend Guido Heis-
tek on a Web page as sound-only Quick-
Time movies, using Claris Home Page
2.0 to insert the movies and turn on the
Autoplay attribute for each movie. The
songs played beautifully when I pre-
viewed the page from my hard drive with
Netscape Navigator 3.0, but after I
uploaded the page and movie files to my
server, the movies became silent. Naviga-
tor displayed the message “plug-in load-
ing” at the bottom of the browser win-
dow, counted up the K as each movie file
loaded, and then the big finale . . .
silence. What did I do wrong?
Andrew Funderburg
Fukuoka, Japan
A A sound-only Quick-
. Time movie may not
play from a Web site for sev-
eral reasons. For one, many
browsers and servers require
that a Web-site developer
flatten QuickTime movies
(combine their resources and
data for cross-platform com-
patibility) before inserting
them on Web pages. You can
flatten movies with the Save
As command in Movie Player
version 2.0 and later (includ-
ed with recent versions of
QuickTime and the Mac OS),
as shown in “Flat Movies.”
In addition, several pa-
rameters of the HTML code that embeds
a movie in a Web page can affect whether
the movie plays. The movie must have a
height and width of at least 2 pixels or it
can cause problems for browsers. If you’re
tempted to hide a sound-only movie by
making it tiny, turn off the movie con-
troller instead. (Don’t forget to set hidden
movies to play automatically or no one
will ever hear them.) For example, in
Claris Home Page you would set the
Controller option to No and select the
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QUICK TIPS
Flat Movies You need to flatten QuickTime movies
to guarantee that they will work with most Web
browsers on both Macs and PCs. Open the movie
with Movie Player version 2.0 or later, choose Save
As from the File menu, and set the dialog box options
as shown here. Be sure to name the flattened movie
with the suffix .mov so browser applications will
know It’s a movie file.
Autoplay option in the movie’s Object
Editor window. In Adobe PageMill
2.0, type controller and false followed by
autoplay and true in the blank spaces in
the Inspector palette’s Object panel.
You can also hide a movie in Adobe
PageMill and Claris Home Page by
adding the parameter hldden=false. Don’t
use hidden=true or simply hidden, because
these alternatives hide the movie and pre-
vent it from playing automatically. For
e.xample, in Claris Home Page, you would
type hldden=false into the E.xtra HTxML
box and select the Autoplay attribute in
the movie’s Object Editor window. In
PageMill, you would type hidden and false
followed by autoplay and true in the blank
spaces provided in the Inspector palette’s
Object panel.
Apple’s QuickTime Web site has a
complete list of all the HTML movie
parameters at m\'w.apple.com/quicktime/
dev/qtde\^veb.html.
Making ClarisWorks 5.0 Speak
Q “The Mac Speaks Out” revealed
. how to make ClarisWorks 4.0 talk
(Sea’ctSy August 1997). I didn’t own the
program then, but I recently purchased
ClarisWorks Office. To my dismay, I
found that the Shortcuts submenu men-
tioned in Secrets is gone in ClarisWorks
5.0 and there is nary^ a button with lips to
be found. Has ClarisWorks gone mute?
Leigh L. Pang
Eastsouml, Wasbmgton
A in ClarisWorks 5.0, the Speak
. Text button looks like a tiny Mac
Classic with a cartoon balloon. To add
this button, choose Edit Button Bars
from the pop-up menu in the button
bar. In the dialog box, choose a button
bar in which to nest the Speak Text
button. In the next dialog box, choose
Word Processing from the pop-up
menu, select the Speak Te.xt button, and
click Add.
Speed Up Mac OS 8 Folders
If a folder opens slowly in Mac
OS 8, even after you have
turned off the two Folder Protection
options in die General Controls control
panel (as suggested in February 1998’s
Quick Tips)y the folder may simply con-
tain too many items. Marc D. Grobman
of Thornton, Pennsylvania, reports that
whenever he opened a folder containing
files for each of his 2,000 patients, “to say
that Mac OS 8 was glacial is a crude
TIP
understatement.” Adjusting the disk
cache and initializing the hard disk didn’t
provide any improvement. Finally, he cre-
ated new folders and organized the files
alphabetically, moving all the patients
whose last name begins with A to an A
folder, and so on. Now his folders open
with the utmost speed, m
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A Better Path to Photoshop Masks
IF YOU WANT AN EFFICIENT, FLEXIBLE WAY TO CREATE COMPLEX MASKS IN
Adobe Photoshop, Jonathan S. Gilbert of Austin, Texas, recommends that you try
paths. Gilbert works with Photoshop eight hours a day and believes paths are the best
way to create complex masks because they're more accurate and easier to edit.
Creating paths Is like making a connect-the-dots drawing: you place corner-point or
curve-point "dots" by clicking or dragging with the pen tool. You can add as many dots
as you need to correctly outline fine details. For example, imagine the daunting task of
masking an image of bicyclists with fine details such as spokes, cables, and hair. The
spokes' edges blend with the back-
ground road, making it impossible to
select Individual spokes with the High
Pass filter or the magic-wand tool.
Instead, outline the spaces between
spokes by drawing and editing paths
with the pen tool (see "Easy Masking").
After you've drawn the paths,
you can convert them all to a mask
by dragging the path thumbnail in
the Paths palette to the Make Selec-
tion Icon, or by activating the path
and clicking the icon. You can also
build up a mask by converting paths
piecemeal; adding and subtracting paths makes It easy to mask the bicycles' spokes
and wheels. You add a path to, subtract It from, or Intersect it with the mask by select-
ing the path's points and pressing shift-option while clicking the Make Selection Icon
(5§-click to select one point on a path, or ^-option-click to select all points).
Easy Masking Mask fine details such as bicycle
wheel spokes by connecting hand-drawn paths.
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Get Prepress- Ready PDFs from QuarkXPress
Acrobat Distiller Smooths the PDF Process
by Stephen Beale
A crobat, Adobe Systems’
portable-document tech-
nology, was developed to
put publications online.
With Acrobat 3.0 ($295;
408/5 3 6-6000, \v'w^\^adobe
.com), Adobe reworked
the Portable Document
Format (PDF) to be suit-
able for prepress purposes too. The Acro-
bat files that perform on screen can now
walk a tightrope to your service bureau.
The PDF Advantage
Most prepress production systems are
based on PostScript, a page-description
language that uses English-like com-
mands to generate type, vector graphics,
and bitmapped images. PDF uses the
same underlying software as PostScript
but has a more efficient structure that
treats each page as a self-contained object
instead of as a series of sequentially pro-
cessed commands. PDF now offers sev-
eral advantages over PostScript as a file
format for printing:
• PDF files are typically more com-
pact than their PostScript counterparts
and less prone to output errors.
• You can soft-proof a PDF file by
opening it in Adobe’s free Acrobat Reader.
• You can make minor text edits to a
PDF file with Acrobat Exchange, which
is part of the Acrobat 3.0 package.
Once you’ve converted a PostScript
file to PDF, you can print the file with
Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Exchange.
At this point, the file gets converted
back to PostScript, but it’s generally a
cleaner PostScript file — smaller and eas-
^ ier to print — than what you began with.
I (PostScript 3 printers, which are begin-
Q ning to appear now, can process PDF
i files directly.)
PDF Pitfalls
Here’s the rub: the Acrobat technology
and PDF come from Adobe, but the
most-popular professional page-layout
software comes from archrival Quark.
You can produce PDFs from Quark-
XPress 3.x and 4.0, but it’s tricky. And
Quark’s manual doesn’t help. Quark is
developing a PDF export filter for
XPress, but for now, you’re on your own.
There are three options for produc-
ing PDF files from XPress, but only
one — Acrobat Distiller (part of Acrobat
3.0) — creates PDFs suitable for produc-
tion printing. The others — Adobe’s PDF-
Writer (a QuickDraw driver included in
Acrobat 3.0) and Apple’s LaserWriter 8.5
drivers — are designed to produce PDFs
for online posting or electronic exchange.
Another PDFWriter drawback is that it
won’t print EPS files.
Do the PDF Two-Step
Getting PDFs from XPress is a two-step
process: use the Mac’s PostScript printer
driver to convert the file to a PostScript
print file, then use Distiller to convert
the PostScript file to PDF. The tricky
part is figuring out which settings to use.
Distiller’s defaults prepare files for
online viewing. For print jobs, you want
to produce a generic PDF file diat works
with a multitude of output devices (see
“Distilling the Two-Part PDF Process”).
Before preparing a PDF file, you
should discuss your project with the tech-
nicians at your service bureau. They can
suggest ways to optimize your file for their
workflow, software, and prepress equip-
ment. .^\iter all, you don’t want Acrobat
to tumble into the net as it walks the pre-
press tightrope.
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Distilling the Two-Part
PDF Process
DISTILLER'S DEFAULT SETTINGS CAN HAVE DISASTROUS RESULTS FOR MOST PRINT JOBS.
The settings described below will give you a generic PDF file that should work for
most color prepress jobs. To get the best results, check with your service bureau
for more specific settings.
Part 1 : Create a PostScript Print File
O In the Chooser, select the PSPrinter driver. You should use
Adobe's PSPrinter 8.3.1, which you can download from
Adobe's Web site. (To see which PSPrinter-driver version you
have, open the Extensions folder inside your System Folder,
click on PSPrinter, and press 5€-l.) Apple's LaserWriter driver
also produces PostScript print files, but It's more complicated
and requires being connected to a PostScript printer.
Select Virtual Printer In the Printer Type pop-up. Then click
on Setup, and choose Acrobat Distiller as your PPD. If you're
running QuarkXPress 3.32, you must remove the Balloon Help
file from the QuarkXPress folder. PSPrinter 8.3.1 conflicts with
balloon help and will crash your system when you try to print.
O Now you’re ready to define print settings. The process is a
bit different In versions 3.X and 4.0.
QuarkXPress 3.3 Open the Page Setup dialog box, and make
sure Acrobat Distiller is selected in the Printer Type pop-up (A).
Set Resolution to 2,400 dpi or higher (B); set Halftone Screen to
200 Ipi or higher (C). Select Use PDF Screen Values (D). (In Quark-
XPress 3.x, PDF refers to printer description files, not the Portable
Document Format.) Open the Print dialog box, and choose File as
the destination (E). Make sure Print Colors as Grays is deselected
(F) or else your colors won't print. Then click on Save.
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QuarkXPress 4.0 Open the Print dialog box. Click on the
Setup tab (A), and make sure the Distiller PPD Is selected for Print-
er Description (B). Click on the Output tab (C). Print Colors
should be set to Composite Color (D), and Halftoning should be
set to Printer (E). Click on the Printer button (F) at the bottom of
the screen. This brings up the Virtual Printer dialog box (not
shown). Choose File as the destination, and click on Save.
O In both versions of XPress, clicking on Save brings up a dia-
log box for saving the PostScript file to disk. Name the file; choose
PostScript Job as the format and PostScript Level 2 Only for
compatibility. In the Font Embedding pop-up, you should gener-
ally select All to ensure that all fonts in the document are embed-
ded in the file. The All but Standard 13 and All but Standard 35
options will also work and produce a smaller PostScript file. But
If your document Includes one of the standard 13 or 35 fonts
and those fonts are not available at your service bureau (an
admittedly unlikely occurrence), these options will cause a font-
substitution error. Choosing Binary as the data format makes for
smaller files.
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Part 2: Create a PDF File from Distiller
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PRINT
O From the Finder, open the Acrobat 3.0 folder and locate the
Xtras folder. Inside you'll find a folder called High_end. Open
that folder, and drag the Prologue.ps and Epilogue.ps files Into
the folder in which the Distiller application resides. (Note; Acro-
bat retains job settings. After you follow these instructions once,
you can go directly to step 3 to create subsequent print PDFs.)
Q Open Distiller, go to the Distiller menu, and select Job Options.
A dialog box with four tabs appears. Each tab of the dialog box
contains several settings. Knowing which boxes to check Is
essential to getting a PDF that's suitable for production printing.
General
A. Select Acrobat 3.0 compatibility. Acrobat 2.1 lacks the pre-
press features of version 3.0.
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Font Embedding
A. Select the Embed All Fonts option to store all fonts used in
the document within the PDF file.
B. Select the Subset Fonts Below option to save file space by lim-
iting the number of whole fonts Distiller embeds. Under the
default. If less than 35 percent of the characters are In Bembo, for
example. Distiller embeds just the subset of Bembo characters actu-
ally used. If more than 35 percent of the characters are in Bembo,
Distiller embeds the entire font. Note: Subsetting fonts may limit
your service bureau's ability to edit your file.
Compression
A. Select Compress Text and Line Art.
B. Deselect all downsampling and JPEG compression options,
unless you want the images in your document to be converted
to JPEG (generally not a good idea for prepress production).
C. Select Zip Manual Compression of color and gray-scale
images.
These compression settings reduce the file size without affecting
image quality.
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Advanced
A. Select the Distill with prologue. ps/epilogue.ps option to force
Distiller to include both files in the PDF file. (If the PDF doesn’t
Include those files. Distiller may sometimes convert spot colors in
QuarkXPress files to their process-color equivalents.)
B. Deselect the Convert CMYK Images to RGB option.
C. Select Preserve OPI Comments, Preserve Overprint settings.
Preserve Halftone Screen Information, Preserve Transfer Func-
tions, and Preserve Under Color Removal/Black Generation.
These settings let you retain the prepress options you selected in
the original QuarkXPress document.
D. Set Color Conversion to Unchanged or Device Independent.
Either option will preserve standard color spaces specified In your
QuarkXPress document.
A
B
General NCon>pre»1on~^Font Einbeddliw N AdvancedX
^Distill with prologue.ps / epilogue.ps
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^Preserue OPI Comments
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^Preserve Halftone Screen Information
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rColor Conuersion:
<i) Unchanged
O Oeuice Independent (More Accurate)
O Oeuice Oependent (Faster Display)
O Now you're ready to convert the PostScript file to PDF. From
Distiller's File menu, open the PostScript print file you just creat-
ed. You will then be prompted to enter a file name for the PDF
file; the default appends a .pdf extension to the original file
name. Click on Save, and Distiller goes to work.
O After Distiller saves the file, you should open it in Acrobat
Viewer to make sure it was processed correctly, m
Senior Editor/News ST'EPHEN BEALE covers prepress and graphics for
Macworld.
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The Power of ColorSync Color Matching
Tap Into the Part of Your System Software That's Made for Matching Colors
by Bruce Fraser
S o what is this ColorSync thing
anyu^ay? If youVe done some
studying, you may know that
it has to do with matching
colors between different
devices — scanners, monitors,
and printers. In fact, it’s Apple’s
system-level color-management scheme.
Unfortunately, making it work isn’t as easy
as it might seem. The old joke “It’s sup-
posed to be automatic, but really you have
to press this button” applies to using
ColorSync, although with ColorSync you
have to press a bunch of buttons in the
right order at the right time. This article
looks at some possible ways to use Color-
Sync, and points out pitfalls to be aware of
ColorSync Basics
It’s a thorny problem to keep colors con-
sistent across the various devices we work
with because computers know nothing
about color — they just juggle Is and Os.
The numbers we think of as representing
colors actually represent the varying
amounts of colorants — red, green, and
blue light; or cyan, magenta, yellow, and
black dyes or pigments — that monitors
and printers use to produce color. RGB
and CMYK values are just recipes for
color, and different cooks can make a
dish turn out differently even when they
use the same recipe.
Monitor phosphors and scanner fil-
ters vary from vendor to vendor. CMYK
inks and dyes vary, too, and the paper on
which we print them has a huge influence
on the color. RGB and CMYK colors are
ambiguous — they produce different col-
ors on different devices.
ColorSync helps provide consistent
color by changing the RGB and Cx\mC
values we send to different devices. To do
this, we have to tell it which device the
color came from and which device it’s
going to, by choosing ColorSync profiles.
These are files that describe the color
behavior of a scanner, monitor, or print-
er. You’ll find examples in the System
Folder in a folder called ColorSync Pro-
files (in versions prior to 2.5 it’s further
nested inside the Preferences folder).
One of the first steps in making col-
ors match using ColorS}oic is to choose a
source profile for the device that has the
color you want to match and a target pro-
file for the device you want to match it
on. For instance, if you want to match
the color from a scanned image to the
image on your monitor, you’d choose
your scanner as tlie source and your
monitor as the target. (For advice on
when it’s worthwhile to create custom
profiles, see “Canned versus Custom
Profiles” at w'vvw.macw- orld.com/more/.)
In practice, how you set profiles
varies from application to application.
Here I look at how to use ColorSync
with Adobe Photoshop 3 or later and
QuarkXPress 4.0. (For some other pro-
grams, you can set up color matching by
using ColorS}mc and the LaserWriter
printer driver. For instructions on this
process, see the sidebar “WTat Apple
Doesn’t Tell You about LaserWriter.”)
ColorSync and QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress 4.0 offers limited Color-
Sync support. It applies ColorSync only
to placed TIFFs and to XPress-created
colors, it ignores embedded profiles, and
it doesn’t let you choose a rendering
intent (see the sidebar “Dealing with
Out-of-Gamut Colors”). Nevertheless,
there are some useful things you can do
in XPress 4.0 with ColorSync.
Basic Configuration XPress 4.0’s
Color Management Preferences lets
you set profiles for your monitor, your
composite printer, and your final separa-
tions. It also lets you set default source
profiles for RGB, CMYK, and Hexa-
chrome for both images and XPress-
created colors.
C/WYK Workflow In a CMYK work-
flow, you place CMYK images just as you
would without color management, but
you can use ColorSync to provide both
soft proofs on screen and hard-copy
proofs from a color printer. Set the same
profile as the default CMYK source pro-
file and the Separations Printer profile.
That way, ColorSync doesn’t touch your
final separations, but it provides accurate
color on screen and to your color printer.
RGB Workflow In an RGB work-
flow, you place RGB TIFFs, which
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What Apple Doesn’t Tell You about LaserWriter
USING COLORSYNC WITH THE LASERWRIT-
er driver is a fairly simple process. How-
ever, there are some large (and largely
undocumented) limitations: this kind
of color matching works with only RGB
PICT images, and only with applications
that don't create their own PostScript. So,
LaserWriter Dialog Box
■When you choose ColorSync Color Match-
ing from the Print Color pop-up, you gain
access to menus for rendering intent and
printer profile.
ColorSync converts at print time to final
CMYK. Set your scanner profile as the
RGB source profile if you’re placing raw
RGB scans. Set your monitor profile as
the RGB source profile if you’re placing
images you’ve corrected on the monitor.
The advantages of an RGB workflow
are that RGB files are smaller than their
CMYK equivalents, so processes go a
little more quickly, and your documents
can be easily repurposed — to target a dif-
ferent kind of output, you only have to
change the Separations Printer profile.
The disadvantage is that you don’t see
your separations until you actually pro-
duce final output, so test before imple-
menting an RGB workflow on a live job.
Printing Composite Proofs In an
RGB workflow, make sure that you check
Composite Simulates Separation in the
Profiles panel of the Print dialog box.
Otherwise, ColorSync will render your
RGB files faithfully on your composite
printer, which may do a considerably bet-
ter job than the press. In a CiVIYK work-
flow, the composite printer simulates the
Separations Printer automatically because
you’re feeding it CMYK separations
tagged for the Separations Printer.
If you’re serious about implementing
ColorSync in QuarkXPress, you may
106 June 1 998 MACWORLD
It's OK for printing from general office
applications (such as Microsoft Word,
Excel, and PowerPoint), but It doesn't
work with most graphics applications
(such as Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia
Freehand, and QuarkXPress). For those
applications, you have to implement
ColorSync in the application Itself.
If you are working with programs
that don't create their own PostScript,
here's how to set up ColorSync with
LaserWriter 8.5.1 to match printed Post-
Script output to a monitor: Your first
setup task is to choose the correct moni-
tor profile (the source profile) in the
ColorSync control panel. Once you do
that, choose the profile for the printer
you're printing to — choose print from
your application, and then choose Color
Matching from the pop-up menu in the
LaserWriter dialog box that appears. In
the Color Matching panel, choose Color-
Sync Color Matching from the Print Color
pop-up menu. Finally, choose the profile
for the printer you're printing to from the
Printer Profile pop-up menu.
want to invest in Praxisoft’s CompassPro
XT e.xtension ($399; 703/450-8001, www
.praxisoft.com), which greatly extends
the support for ColorSync. It not only
manages TIFFs and XPress-generated
elements, but also manages placed EPS
files, both vector and bitmap.
ColorSync and Photoshop
Photoshop has limited ColorSync sup-
port, but you can gready extend Color-
Sync’s functionality in Photoshop 4.0.1
Soft-Proof Colors in QuarkXPress
by downloading a free set of ColorSjmc
plug-ins (ColorS)mc Import, ColorSync
Export, and ColorSync Filter) from
Apple’s ColorSync Web site, www
.colorsync.com. Although Photoshop
picks up the monitor profile from the
ColorSync System Profile, you need the
plug-ins to actually change the color.
Here are suggestions on how to use the
first two plug-ins, which will probably be
the most useful of the three plug-ins.
The ColorSync Import Plug-In This
plug-in lets you open images and perform
a color transformation on the fly. To use
it, choose Import TIFF With ColorSync
Profile from Photoshop’s File menu.
Then choose a file to open, and the Color-
Sync Import plug-in appears. It has three
panels, labeled Open, Match, and Proof.
Here I concentrate on the Match panel
(see “Calibrated Scaiming in Photoshop”).
You can choose a source and output
profile, and select a quality setting and
matching style for the transformation. For
images, for Quality select Best, and for
Matching Style select Perceptual unless
you have specific reasons to do otherwise
(see the sidebar “Dealing with Out-of-
Gamut Colors”).
The ColorSync Export Plug-In This
plug-in lets you export TIFF images with
an embedded ColorSync profile, and per-
form color transformations between two
or more devices.
Caution: It’s easy to accidentally delete
a file when using this plug-in. Wlien
you’re prompted to save the exported
TIFF from this plug-in, the default file
name in the Save dialog box is that of your
original RGB image. If you click on Save
without renaming the file, your original
RGB image will be
overwTitten.
Evihedding Pro-
files Embedding
a profile turns an
uncalibrated RGB
or CMYK image
into a calibrated
one. That’s be-
cause the profile
contains an unam-
biguous definition
of the colors that
the RGB or CMYK
values produce.
In order to
embed a profile,
choose Export:
TIFF With Color-
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soft-proofing, use the settings shown here.
Calibrated Scanning in Photoshop
For Images scanned on a calibrated scanner, set the scanner pro-
file as the source profile and your monitor's profile as the out-
put profile to match the colors of the original on your display.
Embedding Profiles in Your Image
Choose the
profile you wish
to embed.
Click here to
name and save
the exported file.
Sync Profile from Photoshop’s File menu;
the ColorSync Export Module screen
appears. Then use a setup like the one in
“Embedding Profiles in Your Image.”
For RGB images, a good rule of
thumb is to embed either your scanner
profile (for an unedited scan) or your
monitor profile (for an image you’ve
edited on screen). For CMYK images,
embed the CMYK profile you use to cre-
ate the CMYK file.
Creating Color Separations To export
a CMYK TIFF from an RGB image,
bring up the ColorSync Export Module
screen (as in “Embedding Profiles in Your
Image”). Then use a setup like the one in
“Convert RGB to CiVIYK for Print.”
Proofing Separations To proof color
separations on a desktop color printer,
you need to specify three profiles: one for
the source, one for the final output, and
one for the desktop printer. Bring up the
ColorSync Export screen and click on the
Proof tab. Under Source Profile, choose
your scanner or monitor profile, and set
Match Image on an output device:
Quality:
I 5est
Source Profile:
the corresponding
Matching Style to
Perceptual. Under
Output Profile
choose the final
output device, and
set the correspond-
ing Matching Style
to Relative Col-
orimetric. Under
Proofer Profile,
choose the desktop
printer profile. Set
Quality to Best.
Click on Export
Tiff, and then
name and save the
exported file.
Note that this
file is color-matched to simulate your final
output on the desktop printer — it’s good
for printing to your desktop printer only.
Viewing ColorSync-Generated Separa-
tions in Photoshop To view ColorSync-
created CMYK files accurately in Photo-
Convert RGB to CAAYK for Print
ColorSync Export Module
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Choose your
monitor profile.
Cancel j ft Export Tlff.ni
Choose an
output process
or device.
Click here to
name and save
the exported file.
Dealing with Out-of-Gamut Colors
ALL DEVICES AREN'T EQUAL WHEN IT COMES
to the range of colors— the color gamut—
they can reproduce. ColorSync gives you
four different options, called rendering
intents or matching styles, for handling out-
of-gamut colors.
Perceptual rendering intent is the best
choice for printing RGB Images to CMY or
CMYK printers. It compresses the source
gamut into the target gamut while maintain-
ing the image's overall appearance, although
It may change all the colors in the process.
Absolute colorimetric rendering intent
matches the colors common to both devices
exactly, and clips the out-of-gamut colors to
the nearest printable equivalent. It's best for
flat tints and solid colors.
Relative colorimetric rendering intent Is
like absolute, except that it scales the source
white to the output (usually paper) white.
It's good for proofing CMYK Images on a
desktop color printer, which typically has a
larger gamut than the printing press you're
making it simulate.
Saturation rendering intent maps fully
saturated source colors to fully saturated
target colors. It's useful only for charts and
graphs where you just want bright colors.
shop, build a Photoshop Separation
Table from the profile used to create the
color separations. Choose Color Set-
tings: Separation Tables from Photo-
shop’s File menu. The Separation Tables
dialog box appears. Click on Build Tables
Using Apple ColorSync. The CMS Set-
tings dialog box appears. Under Profile,
choose the output profile you used to
create the CMYK file, set the Render
Intent to Relative Colorimetric, and then
click on Build.
Photoshop builds a separation table
from the ColorSync profile. You can use
separation tables created this way to per-
form RGB-to-CMYK conversions in
Photoshop, but the results are often quite
different from the ColorSync conver-
sions. I recommend that you use these
tables only to view CiVIYK files, not to
create them, m
BRUCE FRASER is coauthor of Real World
Photoshop (Peachpit Press, 1997). You can reach him
at bnice@pixelboyz.com.
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Make FileMaker Work the Web
Putting a Searchable Database Online
by Jason Snell
W hen it comes to being
Web-sawy, FileMaker
4.0 is an impressive data-
base program. Using its
custom Web publishing
features, you c*an turn the
data you’ve got languish-
ing in a FileMaker database into a profes-
sional-quality Web site — all from within
FileMaker — without investing thousands
of dollars in high-end database servers.
There’s just one catch. The good
folks at FileMaker, Inc., have essentially
kept these features a secret: they’re not
explained in FileMaker’s printed manual
and are e.xplained only in a couple of ref-
erence files on the FileMaker CD-ROM.
There is one other way to learn to
use the hidden power of FileMaker as a
Web publisher: follow the steps in this
article. As long as you know your way
around FileMaker and understand
HTML, you can apply these techniques
to your own FileMaker projects.
In my example, I create a Web inter-
face for a FileMaker database containing
the contents of a fictitious toy company’s
product catalog. I want to let users search
for items in the catalog (Step 1), see die list
of items their searches turn up (Step 2), and
then see detailed information about indi-
\idual items (Step 3). If you’d like to use
the actual files from this example project as
a basis for your own projects, you can get
them from www.macworld.com/more/.
Another good resource to turn to for
more help on creating Web sites in File-
Maker is Blue World Communications’
Lasso — the software on which FileMaker
4.0’s custom Web publishing features are
based. Although Lasso’s tags are a litde
different from FileMaker’s, they’re so
closely related that Lasso’s documenta-
tion (available free online in PDF format
at www.blueworld.com) is the best refer-
ence on the subject, m
JASON SNELL is a Macworld features editor.
Step 1 : A Search Query
Since you'll want people to be able to search and sort the contents
of databases you put on the Web, creating a search form is the
best place to start. In my toy company-database example, the
search form lets users send Information to FileMaker that will tell
the program what to search for and how to display it.
You can create a search form entirely in HTML or In a graphi-
cal Web-page editor. The only tricky part is giving your form ele-
ments the right names so that FileMaker knows what they repre-
sent. Here's how to do it — "Search Form (Close-up)" shows the
form elements In context.
Action The first part of any form
you create should be the action vari-
able. The information In your action
variable tells your database what URL
to send data to when a user performs
a search. Set the action of any form
that queries FileMaker 4.0 to the name
of the FileMaker 4.0 server, followed
by /FMPro — for example, http://
filemaker.outerspacetoy.com/FMPro.
Method In addition to an action
variable, each form needs a method
variable. This should be set to either get
or post While you're debugging your
forms, be sure to use get If you do so,
all the form data used in a search form
is appended to the action's URL — In my
example, it shows up in the Search Results Form (Browser) shown in
Step 2 — after you perform a search. This is useful for testing purposes,
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Hidden Fields
Form Field
Sample Value
What It Is
-db
My Database
name of your database
-lay
Big Layout
layout with all fields you'll use
-format
/catalog/resulthtml
file name of HTML results template
-noresults
/catalog/error.html
file a user sees if a search fails
-sortfield
product name
neune of field for sorting
-sortorder
descending
whether to sort In ascending or
descending order
-lop
or
logical operator for searching on
more than one field; can be an
and or an or search
field to search
search value
what you're searching for
-find
none
last tag on your form; tells
FileMaker a user is doing a search
Control what your visitors see by using hidden fields for your Web-search
form. This table contains the hidden fields I used for my sample database;
they should be useful for your own databases. For details on using them, see
the main text in Step 1.
because all you have to do to find out what your form is sending (and
what it isn't) is look in the URL window. On the other hand, it's usual-
ly best to set the method variable of your finished forms to post since
that hides the clutter of form data from your users.
Hidden Fields Within your search form, you need several hid-
den fields — fields that aren't visible on a Web page but that the
browser still passes to the Web server when a user submits a form
(in this case, when the user performs a search). Users enter some of
the data needed to perform a search via visible fields, but hidden
fields let you hard-code unchanging data elements, such as the
name of the database being searched.
For a list of hidden fields and what they do, see "Hidden Fields. "
In addition, here are some important tips to keep in mind when
you're setting up specific kinds of hidden fields.
The -lay field must specify a layout containing all the fields
your database will search on or return to the user. For debugging
purposes, you can simply create a layout containing every field In
your database — but be sure to create a slimmed-down version of
that layout before it goes live. The more fields in a layout, the slow-
er a Web application runs.
Set the -format field to the file name of the template you want
to use to display the results of a search. You also need to indicate
the location in the Web folder (which Is In the same folder as the
FileMaker application) that contains the template. In my example,
I set -format to /catalog/results. html — In other words, a template
file named results.html, located in a folder named catalog in the
Web folder, which is in the FileMaker folder.
The last hidden field in your form should always be the action
you want FileMaker to perform, such as doing a search, showing ail
FileMaker records, or even (in an advanced application) adding or
deleting records. In most cases, the action will be -find — although
if you wanted to display every record In your database, you would
Instead use -findall.
User-Entered Values The rest of the search form contains
information users enter themselves, such as the name of the
product they're searching for. You can have your users enter data
via text fields, pop-up menus, or radio buttons. If you prefer,
you can limit a user's options by placing some of the search val-
ues in hidden fields.
In my example, I'm allowing users to search three fields; prod-
uct name, price, and category. In the search form in Bare Bones Soft-
ware's BBEdit, I created a text-entry field set to the name product.
This creates a box In my browser search form In which users can
enter the name of the product they want to search for. I've also
created two pop-up menus (shown In the "Search Form" figures)
that allow a search based on a product's price or category.
I hard-coded the rest of the items into the search form as
hidden text: -sortfield defines what FileMaker field to sort the
results by, and -sortorder defines whether that sort will be
ascending or descending.
step 2: The Results Page
Now It's time to create the page users will receive when searches
are complete. Although this is an HTML page and can be designed
in any Web authoring tool, you need more than just a knowledge
of HTML to create it — you also need some new vocabulary.
FileMaker's Own HTML To make Web browsers speak a
language FileMaker can understand, you need to use tags from
FDML (FileMaker Dynamic Mark-up Language). These FileMaker-
specific tags act as placeholders for Information from your File-
Maker database. This information gets Inserted right into an HTML
file that's sent from your server to someone browsing your Web
site. By using FDML to create templates, you can quickly create
preformatted Web pages for every record in your database.
It's easy to tell FDML tags from their HTML cousins: whereas
HTML tags are surrounded by angle brackets, as In <b>, FDML tags
are surrounded by square brackets and are preceded by FMP, as in
[FMP-file] — see the figure "Search Results Form (HTML)."
To add FDML tags to your HTML documents, use a text editor
(or the FDML-savvy Claris Home Page 3.0).
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Search Results Form (Browser)
110 June 1998 AAACWORLD
We Take Product Testing
Seriously.
LAB TEST
WEB
Start with HT/\AL I want the search -results page to show
users every record FileMaker found during their search. The first
step in creating this page is to make a normal HTML page with a
header, a footer, and a table containing a generic version of the
data. I temporarily inserted text such as "the product name" into
my HTML document: later I'll replace this with FDML tags.
Add FDML for Repeating Records The first FDML tag I
employed was one that makes each found product appear in Its
own row. I created the table using
normal HTML — as seen in "Search
Results Form (HTML)" — and then
placed the [FMP-record] tag around
the middle row, the one contain-
ing product Information. Now File-
Maker will add one row to the table
for every record it finds.
Replace Text with Data The
next step is to replace the generic
text in the record row with data
from the database. To do this, I
replaced generic text, such as "the product name," with an FDML
tag pointing to a field In my database, such as the product field
[FMP-field: product]. Likewise, to have the contents of the price
field inserted during a search, I simply put [FMP-field: price] in the
cell that's supposed to list the product's price.
Use Logic A more difficult concept is the addition of logical
statements to template files. Again, you can do this by using an
FDML tag — [FMP-if]— which tells FileMaker to insert certain data
based on the contents of a field. I used this tag to get a "New!"
graphic to appear on some but not all items, as shown In the figure
"Search Results Form (Browser)." In my example, the statement
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tells FileMaker that if the field named new contains the word new,
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then the program should insert a GIF image that says "New!"
Make a Link I want to let my users click on any toy's name
on the search-results page and receive a detailed view of informa-
tion about that toy. That means I have to make a hyperlink to the
FileMaker record for that specific toy — but exactly what URL am I
supposed to hyperlink to? FDML makes linking easy by automati-
cally creating database- related hyperlinks via the [FMP-linkrecId]
tag. The code for the hyperlink in my example reads <a href="[FMP-
linkrecid: layout=detail,format=/catalog/detail.html]''> — generating
a link that tells FileMaker to continue using the fields in the detail
layout (one of the layouts in my FileMaker database), but to use
the file catalog/detail. html as the template for the next page (a
template I create in Step 3).
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Step 3: The Detail Page
The last page on my site is detall.html,
a page that shows a bunch of infor-
mation — such as product description,
price, and manufacturer — from a par-
ticular record in FileMaker. Users go
to this page by clicking on one of the
product names on the Search Results
Form. The detail page is essentially a
template for displaying any record
from my database.
Since this page (see "Detail
Form") displays only one record at a
time, it doesn't need the [FMP-record]
tag. Instead, I designed the page In a
standard HTML-editing program and
then brought it into a text editor to
replace all the placeholder text with
the live contents of my database via
the [FMP-field] tag.
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1250/43
6500/800
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6500/250
32/468/24x60
1850/47
B360/160
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6400/200
10/1 /CD
PowerMac
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68/250 32/56B/20XCD 34588/3158
3400C/240 1 6/368/1 2xCD/38.e/BV ...3388/118
3400C/200 1 6/2eB/6xCD/EN/38.B 2788/87
2400C/180 18/1.86B 1788/62
1400C/166 16/26B/8XC0 1788/62
1 400ct/1 66 1 6/1 .36B/1 2xCD 1550/53
PowerBook
3400C/240
16/3GB/1ZxCD/EN/Mod
Color Stylewnter 6500
Color Stytewrttor 4500
laMnUMton 19/Oan
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Stylus Color 800 1440dpi
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SCANNERS
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SnapScan BOO
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SnapScan 810
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84/2X4GB/C0/A8/ENet
Appievislon 750 760
Multiscan 750AV 17” 888
Muitiscan 850AV 20” 1588
Supepscan 17” .22mm 638
Suparscan MC21 1188
PpessVlew218R 2285
VisionMastarPro 500 1088
VisionMasterPro 17 558
81txm 1088
Multisync M700 875
Muitiscan 200E8 528
Multiscan 200PS 745
MO .26 18” 1024x1280 688
Optiquest V773-2 17” 388
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ATI Xclaim VR 4mb Vcard 3 228
ATI Xclaim 3D 8mb V'Card 285
O ixMECRo Twin Turbo 4mb V-card 265
IMS Twin Turbo 8mb V-card 885
Radius Tempest PCI 8MB V-card 875
Radius Tbunder TX 1162 885
Radius PrecisionColor 24/1600 888
Radius Thunder 30/PCI 1475
Radius Thunder 30/1 820 81 8
Radius Videovision V2.0 2248
Truevision Targa 1000 w/Premlere 1488
Truevision Targa 2000 2888
Truevision Targa 2000 Pro 8350
1MB 7300,8600,8500,8800 Series 3 25
16MB 72PlnSlmm
32MB 72 Pin 81mm 55
32MB 168 Pin Dimm 60ns 55
84MB 188 Pin DImm 60ns 88
128MB 168 Pin Dimm 60ns 425
32MB 168PinDimm80RAM63 58
64MB 188 Pin Dimm SDRAM 68 128
128MB 168 Pin Dimm SDRAM 63 258
18MB 188 Pin Dimm 60NS 3.3V 45
32MB 16B Pin Dimm 60N8 8.3V 58
64MB 168 Pin Dimm 60N8 3.3V 128
16MB Powerbook 63 55
82MB Powerbook 63 88
64MB Powerbook 63 148
128M Powerbook 63 285
18MB Powerbook 1400 Module 59
24MB Powerbook 1400 Module 88
32MB Powerbook 1400 Module 89
16MB Powerbook 2400c Module 78
S2MB Powerbook 2400c Module 145
64MB Powerbook 2400c Module 269
32MB Powerbook 3400c Module 98
64MB Powerbook 8400c Module 148
128MB Powerbook 3400c Module 285
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Express. 636 Artist 888
Express. 686 Executive 699
Express. 688 Profess 1255
5P Mac 600 dpi LE Photo 255
LInocolor Jade II 600 dpi 435
Scanmaker E6 269
Scanmaker E6 Pro 469
Scanmaker III w/Pboto 1289
Astra 1200s 600 dpi 235
Astra 1200s w/PhotoSbop ....428
Powerlook II & Trans 1230
KEYBOARDS/MODEMS
KjcvnoA II Ills;
Design Keyboard 3 68
Extended Keyboard II 89
Generic Extended Keyboard 39
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Nraflon Netopia (ISON) 3 329
GlobaiViBage Teleport 56K Fax v.34 X2 159
GkibalViaage Teleport 56K Fax v.34 K2 139
Global Viage PowerPort 56K PC Card 359
GlobaiVraage PowerPort Ptat 28.8 PC Card ..21 9
Simra Express Modem 83.6 — 99
Supra ExpressFax Modem 56E V.34 ...1 29
Supra Express 56E Speakerphone 139
U.3. Robotics Sportster 28.8 PC Card 1 99
U.8. Robotics Sportster 56K X2 1 39
Zoom 33.6 bit. 14.4 Fax PC Card 155
Zoom 56K External 110
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51 2K L2 Dimm 6400/4400 Series 79
256K L2 Dimm, 7200-8500 Series 49
51 2K L2 Dimm, 7200-8500 Series 68
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Verbatim 200MB 29
SYOUEStEZ 135MB /230MB 14/22
7 Zip 100MB/10 Pacfc 18/114
Iomega jaz 16B Cart/5 Pack 83/398
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Wacom ArtZ II 6x8 w/Ultra Pen 8 278
Wacom ArtZ II 12x12 w/Ultra Pen 390
Wacom ArtZ II 12x18 w/Ultra Pen 645
Adas n 4.5 68 W
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^ Zip w/1 00MB Cartridge Ext 3 1 49
JL Zip 1 00MB & Cartridge Int 1 66
mu Jaz 1 68 Retail 8i Cart. Int 275
U Jaz 1 68 Retail & Cart. Ext 259
Jaz 1 68 Retail 8i 4 Cart. Ext 588
^ Syiet 1 .568 & Cartridge Int 278
0 Syiet 1 .568 & Cartridge Ext 289
^ Syiet 1 .568 & Cart. House Ext ..289
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FUfiTSU b40 mb Dynamo Ext 449
Olympus 280 MB PowerMO Ext 349
ZIP drive lor PowerBook 289
230MB MO PowerBook 388
Panasonic 8Rx4W COR Rewr. w/Toast Ext389
Panasonic 8Rx4W COR Rewr. w/Toast Int448
Combo Jaz /Panasonic 6x4 con combo 788
EXPANSION GARDS/CAMERAS
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Newer Tech. Max Powr 63 lor PM 61 00 485
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Newer Tech. Max Povn* 63/250 988
Newer Tech. Max Powr 63/275 1399
Newer NuPower PBK 500 187 MHz W/8MB 509
AGFA EphOto807 3 289
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PowerMac 720012010 7600 -.4549 AppieAutol^ed 1.44 Floppy. $69
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Powerbook 170
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$449
Powerbook 160
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$469
Powerbook 180
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$549
Duo 230
4/120
$379
Duo 280c
12/320
$659
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17" Apple Multiscan $499
1 6" Apple Color RGB $299
1 4" Apple Color Display $ 1 79
13" Apple Hi-res Color RGB $159
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Quadra 700
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PM 6100/66
PM 7100/80
PM 7200/75
PM 7200/90
4/80 $99
4/40 $129
8/80 $289
8/80 $299
8/230 $479
8/500 $509
8/500 $649
16/500/CD $679
16/500/CD $749
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LaserWriter IINT $199
Lasenviiter Select 300 $ 1 99
LaserWriter Pro 600 $649
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^Applc 15" MuULScan Mir (R) 229.00
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Apple 20" Two Page Display (U) 99.00
Apple 14" Color Plus .Mtr (U) 189.00
Apple 13" RGB Trinitron Mtr (U) 159.00
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Extended Keyboard. Mac ADR (N) 29.00
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Quadra 950
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LC 580
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• Edutainment package
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POWERMAC 7200/75
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P^1*^ WITH TV OPTION . . .$199
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••Performa 5200 8/900/4XCD $899.
•Ccmiis 650 4/t) CIC040 processor) $499.
•Quadra 660w 4A) $549.
•Quadra 84(lAvO/t) $'19.
•Quadra 800 an $749.
••Ptattt-rMac 8500/120 16/lGa/4.XCI) . . . $1599.
•WGS9516/70(ICD $999.
•WGS 8150/80 8^500 $1499.
•WGS 9150/120 16/lGB/GD $1799.
Logic Boards on Sale
•Performa 600 $129.
•Performa 630 $199
•Performa 6200 $399.
•LC $99.
•LCIl $129.
•.MacUd $129.
•Quadra 800 $549.
•Quadra 84UW $399.
•Quadra 950 $399
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RasciOps 24MX new $199.
Radiiu PredsionColor &'1600 PCI ntw $549.
MKTnn XCccd for Performa $299.
• *6100 scries AV Card vviih adapter $549.
♦PowerMac HP\' VRAM Card (1MB VRAM) . . .$ I79.
•♦Apple (^ickDraw 3D Accelerator (^rd PCI $199.
NuBus Adapters & Misc.
Quadra 660AV NuBus Adapter $49.
Quadra 610 Nubus .Adaptc-r $49.
•Quadra 610 DOS Compatibiliiy Card $99.
Apple Color OncScanncr $199.
Apple Color OncScanncr 600/27 $549.
UNLAX i:C84U Sianner new $299.
Epson ES-600C new $549.
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• 2MB VRAM ("Oust
PowerComputing *1599
Monitors
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. $349.
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. $449.
•* Hewlett-Pat kanl 20**
...$649.
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. $159.
•Apple LiscrlXriicr lfe'600PS
$1199.
••.Apple tVrsonal La.scr9CYiicr 300
. $329.
•Apple Personal l.aserAX'riter .NTR
. .$549.
•LxserWHter Ilf w/5MB RA.M
. .$749.
♦LaserWriter llg w/5MB RAM
..$899.
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Q610.Q660av.PM6lOO
-.$199
Q700.Q650.PMT100
. . .5169.
Pwfiirma 530.6200.6500
. .$199
P.M7200, 7500, 7600
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Q800.Q8«)av,PM8100
PM 8500
. . .$399
PM 9500
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PM 5200
. .$249
Duo Dock
. .$199
LC575
..$299.
Classic, Classk 11
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Quadra 600/840 to PM S50(V132 (exchange)
$1299
Pertorma 630 to 6300100 (exchange)
$499
Performa 6200 to 630a'100 (exchange)
$249
Quadra 800 to PowerMac 8100/80 (exchange)
$599
Quadra 660 to PowerMac 6100/60 (exchange)
$449
Performa 600/llvx to Centris 650 (exchange)
$279
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595
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Cheetah 4.3G SCSI
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379
399
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249
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V1axPowrG3 266 949
MaxPowrG3 275 1199
VlaxPowr Pro G3 275/275 2029
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WAS RECENTLY INTRO-
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defender? At parties, did other
people see the word fanatic tattooed
across my forehead? Was I a Mac bigot?
Most of the world uses Windows.
Not passionately, but they manage. Fd
owned a Compaq for years, but it had
never been my main machine. Maybe Fd
been too insulated. Maybe it was time to
give Windows a real chance.
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modem, and a much bigger hard drive. 1
called a consultant. His advice: toss the
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be cheaper than all the upgrades.
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modem; a built-in Zip drive; a 15-inch
monitor; Alicrosoft Office; free shipping;
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of Windows machines.
Setting up a Wintel box, I discovered,
is just as easy as setting up a Mac — e.xcept
everything’s slightly clunkier. You can’t
plug the mouse into the keyboard. There’s
no built-in speaker. You can’t turn the com-
puter on and off from the keyboard, and
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into an oudet on die CPU. But I couldn’t
get mad; I was still giddy about the price.
Things got hairier when I pushed the
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system reboots, and DOS mucking. But
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players. Micron had switched CD-ROM
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writer, the tech-support staff, or me.
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hardware and the software. With a Win-
tel machine, you get components from
one company, assembled by another, run-
ning system software by a third. When
trouble strikes, nobody is accountable.
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say about Windows machines is ti*ue: they
feel fast, they’re dirt cheap, and there’s
tofis of software. I actually liked the tool
bar that lists every window; and the two-
button mouse; and the feeling, for once,
that I was running with the herd.
But after a few days, I began to ache
for the Mac. Windows 95 gets more
ornery the more you use it. You can’t boot
normally from a CD-ROM in times of
troubleshooting. Despite the potential for
long file names in Windows 95, most files
are still named things like 5631_dig.dat
and Wpxerror.log. And every little glitch
requires reinstalling drivers for things
Mac fans never even think about, such
as the mouse, keyboard, and monitor.
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or Zip, no icon appears on the desktop to
tell you if the thing’s working right. And
to eject a disk, you have to push a button
on the computer — I wince every time, not
knowing whether the computer is ready
to eject that disk.
After two weeks, it finally hit me: I’m
not a Mac bigot. In fact, I have no partic-
ular attachment to the Mac at all; if some-
thing superior comes along, I’m there.
No, what I am is an elegance bigot. If
I’m going to sit in front of a piece of
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the intelligence that went into
my operating system. I want to
sense that an English major
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the dialog boxes. I shouldn’t
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on his way to work. And I want
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resented by icons that I can
move or throw away — not
lines of code that I must edit
when troubleshooting.
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not a high priority in Win-
dows 95. And Windows 98
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Windows (or PC equipment standards,
which Microsoft defines).
Apple has been showing improved
vital signs in recent months. But if the
worst should come to pass and we must all
someday switch to Wintel boxes, I have
but one plea to Microsoft: when you write
Windows 2001, get the elegance bug.
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